Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked like a county-fair town at election time. Hawkers were sold out of balloons and popcorn; hotels were jammed?and charging three times their normal prices. On every street, flags hung from front stoops and gawking kids from tree limbs. Several banners proclaimed: L.B.J...
...group would stake out a territory and fight to defend its boundaries against any "theys." In short, a nation becomes a state when it has the power to occupy and hold a given amount of space and when other nations recognize this fact. This may not seem just or fair. It may smack too much of raw force and various doctrines of "the survival of the fittest" or "the territorial imperative" that have been used to justify force. Yet these basic conditions-identity, tradition, ability to stake out a territory, govern it and win recognition-are the only real criteria...
...Without Fair Hearing. Brewster also became deeply interested in politics. He opposed U.S. entry into World War II, joined the isolationist America First movement, even testified before a congressional committee against U.S. aid to Britain. He also argued-as some of his New Left students do today-that students should be permitted to attend peace rallies. Looking back, Brewster sees his position as defensible at the time, since, he thought, F.D.R. was pushing the U.S. toward war without a "fair hearing and popular debate...
Everyone to his own religion, Levin seems to say, and worship of the Devil is one. Ultimately, there are two tests for any thriller or piece of horror fiction: 1) does the author play fair, yet come up with a shocker of a denouement? and 2) is the reader's willing suspension of disbelief rewarded with a final close-the-book aspiration of relief as he returns to his own world? Author Levin bats fifty-fifty. On the one hand, the ending of Rosemary's Baby, though inevitable, is flat; on the other hand, it is as unsettling...
...couple of years later, she got her first job, writing captions for Vogue. At 24, she married Edwin Parker II, a businessman from whom she was later divorced but whose name she kept. In 1917 she moved up in the magazine world, joining the staff of Vanity Fair, where she shared an office with Humorist Robert Benchley and the incipient Playwright Robert Sherwood...