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...widespread attitude of "northern saints and southern sinners" in regard to the race problem has been proven patently unwarranted by revelations of racial bias in many areas of Northern life...
...enter the Common Market, but not until now did anyone get around to polling the poets and playwrights. Sounding like his own Elder Statesman, T. S. Eliot told the monthly Encounter: "I have always been in favor of close cultural relations with Europe. For this reason my personal bias is in favor of Britain's entering. And I have not been impressed by the emotional appeals of some of those who maintain that to take this course would be betrayal of our obligations to the Commonwealth...
...essays are tantalizingly short, far too short to answer the questions they raise. This is more apparent with three dozen of them gathered together. The thematic element is lacking: Newman has not cared to make his scientific values explicit, or to defend his obvious and probably justified bias for mathematics in the scheme of things. True, Science and Sensibility is offered as the compendium of personal interests; but I still believe that Newman's concerns must be bound together by more than a Scientific American cover...
Often praised as an adroit practitioner of the soft sell, Fund Raiser McCord, 64, prefers to think of himself as a man "fishing with a barbless hook." He says his technique "does not stem from any personal bias, but simply out of my unshakable belief in the philosophy of using civilized language for a civil purpose' According to McCord, college fund raisers should "act as though we were an extension of, and not simply a blunt instrument for, our alma mater...
...long, is inserted through a slit in the belly muscle. It is threaded to take a screw-plug that seals the whole apparatus when it is not in use. For irrigation, this plug is unscrewed and replaced by one with a hole drilled through on the bias. Through this hole a tube is inserted to carry the irrigation fluid. By rotating the plug with its angled orifice, fluid can be directed to or drained from different parts of the abdominal cavity...