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...popular journalism. Press cliches and pseudo quotes from the candidate are alternated until Kennedy himself seems little more than a collage of newsprint. The story is an exhilarating experiment in the dynamics of hero-making, though its effectiveness depends too obviously on which way the reader's political bias leans...
Students at the meeting charged that Harvard's admissions procedures were geared to admit affluent students. This bias was especially hard on blacks, they said, because they occupy the lower rungs on the economic scale...
...suffered from a conspiracy of ear plugging. Though his work has always been read, especially in the U.S., his reputation after his death in 1932 was increasingly demeaned by historians, who dismissed his readability as shallowness, his hyperbole as untruthfulness, and his point of view as malicious bias. In Eminent Victorians, Strachey provided four desecrating portraits of some of the era's most sacred cows. Admirers of the work are well reminded, as Cyril Connolly wrote, that "it might be described as the first book of the twenties. He struck the note of ridicule which the whole war-weary...
...must have been one of the issues of the Crimson that I missed that announced the sale (or renting) of the front page of the Harvard Crimson to Robert F. Kennedy '48, for the duration of the campaign season. Surely such a transaction would explain the extraordinary bias the Crimson has shown in the past week...
...idealistic" outlook on life to a more "pragmatic" one. Brainwork is what is needed to be on the top of the Harvard academic ladder, and these "personality suited" students place other values before a life of brainwork. Thus they slide down the Harvard grade ladder and hence the statistical bias. Admission to business school places less emphasis on high grades than admission to law or medical schools...