Word: biases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kluxing in the Old South, has been voluntarily shelved by the Museum. Film Library officials, recalling that the picture started race riots in 1915 and again in 1921, admit the "greatness of the film" and "its artistic and historic importance." But because of "the potency of its anti-Negro bias . . . exhibiting it at this time of heightened social tensions cannot be justified." Students are advised that Birth of a Nation is still in the Museum's files and gets "limited circulation for research purposes...
...reporter cannot stay two weeks in the poisoned atmosphere of Warsaw without developing a bias which ... is bound to color his reports, and there is no correspondent in Poland today who hasn't in his heart aligned himself with either the Communist-dominated Government or ... Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant party." Bigart had, for one; he was now firmly antiCommunist. He added: "There is no middle ground, no impartial witness...
...arranger and two lyricists set to work. From Mendelssohn's Ruy Bias Overture and the slow movement of the Violin Concerto in E Minor they pasted together a scene in an "opera" they billed as Marie Antoinette; from Liszt's Les Préludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 and Liebesträume they contrived another called My Country. Sample lyrics...
...combined efforts of Professor Wood-worth and Professor Davison the mixed choir has attained a degree of perfection for which a men's chorus in vain would strive. These two men have done their utmost to keep the choir together, but now their work is thwarted by the bias of a couple of University officials...
There was class bias in the Dalton budget. Purchase taxes on pots, crockery, blankets, mattresses were reduced or removed, but not on cars or furs. Income-tax rates for a married man with two chil dren and earning $1,200 a year went down from 3% to nothing; for a man in similar circumstances earning $4,000 a year, from 30% to 24%; for the man earning $10,000 a year, only from...