Word: biases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hopper's bias toward Robinson soon turned to open admiration. In the season's first game, Robinson collected four hits, including a three-run homer, stole two bases and scored four runs. But the taunting cries of "Go home spook!" and "Kill the jungle bunny!" still echoed from the bleachers, both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line. During one game in Syracuse, the opposing team turned a black cat loose on the field, shouting that it was the "black boy's cousin." Robinson responded by drilling a double to left. In 1946, after leading...
...project is marred by unsubstantiated innuendos and unconcealed bias. But the profiles, called Citizens Look at Congress, lay out for the voters about as much as they might want to know about their Representatives and Senators-and perhaps more. They detail the voting history and characteristics of each state and district, where each subject got his financial backing in the past several campaigns, how he voted on the floor and in committee, how much time he devotes to committee work and how he is "rated" by various interest groups. It tells how often a Congressman returns to his state...
...significance of male rule and of male begemony in the broader sense is clearly shown in the lack of political support given to mobilizing resources on behalf of the feminist cause. Not only do women face basic discrimination in schools banks, and personnel offices, but they suffer sexist bias in any pursuit of a genuine redress of civil or criminal grievances. The system is self-perpetuating, since...
...natural to conclude, therefore, that more women in government will somewhat alleviate that discrimination. It would not eliminate the existence of bias, but it would help circumvent or end the formal impediments to the female exercise of citizens rights. Women might also be more successful in obtaining the money and personnel necessary to the progress of community action...
...result is chaos. The film medium, integrating elements of every art, encourages mere thrill-seekers and poetic poseurs. The real challenge is to create an artificial framework sufficiently analogous to the hard reality in which its creator lives to make a philosophic statement artfully: or, as is my bias (and Troell's), to see a historical subject so purely that poetry arises as the culmination of psychological, intellectual and moral developments in the artist's perceived experience...