Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes this is rewarding. Hymned, the workers' cause has less stridency than when harangued. And when O'Casey's outcast street figures raise their voices in a dream of fair Dublin, there is a sudden sense of a city's voice upraised. But things seem oftener picturesque than intense, and windy rather than Aeolian. The finest moments have the comic smack and grizzle of Juno. A trio of codgers snort and wrangle gloriously, and go right on snorting and wrangling while they crouch on the floor to avoid what may crash through the windows. When...
...acts of Studio One's production of Fair Play, the Army got an unmerciful going over. James Gregory, a sad-sack private accused of murdering a girl, is defended by idealistic young Lieut. Dewey Martin, who is soon convinced that his client is being framed by a pair of villainous MPs. The court-martial is as farcically one-sided as if it were being run by Judge Lynch himself. When Martin protests, he is placed under barracks arrest. In the last five minutes of the play, this monstrous parody of justice turns out to have been only a bureaucratic...
...excellent Dec. 5 article is the best piece of reporting on the Baptists that I have ever read. I appreciate very much your frank and fair appraisal of our work...
...rarely wrong. If executives do not expect compassionate sympathy, they do expect-and get-justice. One result: there is little infighting in G.M.'s executive suites. Says Executive Vice President Albert Bradley: "We are all living in glass houses, and we go to great lengths to play fair with each other...
Next day Pundit Walter Lippmann suggested that the written-question method be made a permanent part of Ike's conferences when he resumes them. Answers could be prepared by executive departments and "edited" by White House aides. "Even before the President's illness," argued Lippmann, "it was fair to argue that the oral questions and answers were not sufficiently informing-especially on intricate matters-and that they needed to be supplemented by written questions and written, that is to say deliberate and fully informed, answers." Columnist David Lawrence also advocated the written-question method as a permanent change...