Word: evenhandedness
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Pleasure Expedition. Though a Southerner, Foote's judgments are evenhanded. He admires Sherman as an implacable tactician while amply describing the depredations that Uncle Billy's "bummers" committed as they marched to the sea. Sherman, says Foote, "hoped to keep nonmilitary damage to a minimum, but he made...
I vote for one of the few men to maintain a fair, evenhanded view of the Middle East situation-Senator J. William Fulbright.
Tipped Scales. Yet somehow the film never really involves the viewer. Obviously the director started out to be evenhanded, to show how any system that drains the human factor out of its political processes breeds an answering cold-bloodedness in its most radical opponents. At some point, however, he must...
Clearly more troublesome was Sirica's declaration that he would pursue truth rather than follow tight rules. What most critics failed to note was that the remark came in favor of the defense, as Sirica upheld the wide-ranging manner in which Mitchell's attorney, William Hundley, was...
The exact effects of American strategy overseas may never be completely known. World War III-which 74% of Americans once believed would inevitably occur within a decade after 1947-has not occurred. But who can say for sure if that was the result of courageous U.S. policy, Russian prudence or...