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...their part, many psychiatrists suffer from an anti-religious bias that is part of the "general positivistic atmosphere of our time," said Dr. Stern-"the belief that science is the only fountain of truth and that revelation is bunk." Some would go so far as to say that scientific progress has made religion obsolete. Others, more moderate, blame religion and its moral codes for causing neurotic anxiety based on feelings of guilt...
...technical competence of foundation grantees and attacked the educational philosophies of such men as John Deway and Robert M. Hutchins. Where research projects fell short of absolute perfection in their results or failed to achieve acceptable solutions, the grantors were scored for their inefficiency, wastefulness, and un-American bias...
...that the Supreme Court lays down for de-segregation. Professor Gordon Allport, who has studied the decline in prejudice that accompanies forced de-segregation in schools and factories, sees grave problems in the Southern leadership's drastic opposition to compliance. Integration is surely the best way to dispel racial bias, but integration cannot occur until Southern politicians have exhausted their evasive ingenuity...
...Bias. In 1938, Claire had her first big success-and speeded up the trend to casual clothes-with her Monastic dress. Until then, American women had little choice of styles between a cotton house dress and an afternoon dress. The Monastic dress gave American fashion a new flexibility that it has never lost. Loose-hanging and cut on the bias,*it did not sell at first. Then a buyer from Manhattan's Best & Co. casually asked for a New York exclusive, and ordered 50 Monastics in wool and 50 in faille. Best's ran a full-page...
...charging 51 Los Angeles manufacturers, 32 contractors and two labor unions with trying to control 20% of the sportswear market by illegal trade agreements. * Still a favorite McCardell trick. Instead of cutting material straight up and down, or straight across, with the threads, McCardell often cuts it diagonally. The bias cut wastes material, but it gives a dress more flexibility, makes it adapt to the shape of the body...