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They do indeed, and they demand evaluation both as history and as literature, as the representation of a certain historicla bias and as an artful attempt to embody that bias in the outpourings of fictional characters...
Authors Waverley Root and Richard de Rochemont, both experienced food writers (De Rochemont is also a movie producer), are primarily interested in quality rather than quantity. Their bias is clearly Continental but they are not snobs. They can generalize that American cooking is basically overcooked and underseasoned, but they also discriminate between cuisine and good cooking-especially food with ethnic influences like Tex-Mex, creole and soul...
...first be handled by the appeal panel. Yet it is hard to understand why Steiner--who for one need not, as Brown-Beasley notes, ultimately rule on the case--will not respond to certain fundamental procedural questions Brown-Beasley has raised. These questions include: 1) questions about the possible bias permitted in the list of candidates for the "neutral" third hearing panel seat, a list compiled by President Bok; and 2) questions about the procedures for the hearing: will it be public and include provisions for the calling and cross- examination of witnesses and for Brown-Beasley to face...
Whatever else can be said about this year's campaign, it is the first-let us pause a moment to celebrate-in which the bias of the press did not become an issue. That's a remarkable change from the suspiciousness and acrimony of the Nixon-Agnew days. Perhaps the low amount of partisanship in the country kept such accusations from being heard. But the press wasn't much committed to a candidate either: James M. Naughton of the New York Times quoted a fellow reporter as saying that in a poll of correspondents, "the undecided vote...
...More Joy of Sex. But this time British Author Alex Comfort, 56, is trying for a pop bestseller on old age, not sexual hydraulics. A Good Age (Crown; $9.95) is Comfort's attack on "agism"-prejudice against the elderly, which he considers society's most stupid bias. After all, the elderly are the only outcast group that everyone eventually expects to join. "I wonder," says Comfort, "what Archie Bunker would say about Puerto Ricans if he knew he was going to become one on his next birthday...