Word: evenhandedness
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The embattled Marcos had drawn a rare bit of strength from Reagan's initial evenhanded remarks. Marcos' opponents were said to be dispirited by the suggestion of fraud in challenger Corazon Aquino's camp.
Despite the chilling effect of law and custom, liberal ideas and practices surface and are customarily blamed on the West. To many Chinese, Westerners seem enslaved by their animal instincts and unconcerned about family unity. Still, more open attitudes seem to continue. The usually stern Shanghai Liberation Daily raised eyebrows...
Allende's most persuasive pages describe the coup that felled her uncle and the terror that followed as it hits all the members of her fictional family, whatever their politics. Hers is an evenhanded account told with much poignancy. Regrettably, however, the novel stumbles to a close when the author...
Despite Mountbatten's massive size, the evenhanded narrative moves with enormous grace and wit. This affectionate character study of a nearly extinct species can also be read as a fascinating gloss on World War II, or as a social history of wealth and privilege in decline. It was privilege, in...
The first things swept aside are the conventions of TV drama. There is no 21-gun pageantry here, no coffee-table scenery. Most of the characters, and there are more than 100, keep their secrets to themselves. When, after 14 episodes, all the subplots converge, none of them ends up...