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...smash back at what he saw as his oppressors. A shrewd and tough lawyer, Jaworski is too intent on dissecting evidence to draw perceptive conclusions on what he has learned from such a rich career in the law. Ehrlichman's message twists in the winds of his bias. Jaworski, at least in this book, delivers none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Convict and His Prosecutor | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...copies can pass for the originals. Rockefeller's craftsmen used a photographic process called Cibachrome to suggest the texture as well as the color of paint. To a viewer with no forewarning, the copy would give him the same "experience" as the original. It is the critic's bias against the reproduction that somehow makes it "worse." If the reproductions offer the same experience as the original, why shouldn't they be considered worthwhile? For centuries artists have reproduced their art--engravers like Albrecht Durer and William Blake made rough woodblocks of their originals and printed dozens of copies...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Rockefeller and His Clones | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

...with Molière's Le Misanthrope as part of a four-week visit to New York and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. It will also present Feydeau's La Puce à l'Oreille (A Flea in Her Ear) and Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Fool for Truth | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...male, white European ethnocentrism that it now purveys as "liberal" education. Harvard does not recognize or even understand the meaning and validity of Women's Studies.Afro-American Studies. Native American Studies and all the other ways of understanding history and culture that are now finally widening the narrow bias of the cultural "core" that this university teaches its students. Harvard tries not to acknowledge the multiple oppressions of sex, race and class on the basis of which "liberty, equality and fraternity" were achieved and have been sustained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Letter | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

Analysis of Observational Data: The Robusiness of Mathematical Models in the Presence of Bias--Sonjz McKinlay, mathematician, Agassiz House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: May 10-May 16 | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

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