Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALKING HAPPY is an amiable amble through a Dickensian landscape breezily propelled by moving sets, spirited choreography, and a beguiling zephyr named Norman Wisdom who, as a "my fair laddie," is a bootmaker lifted out of the lower classes by his shoestrings...
...Your summary of my view on morality is on the whole as fair and accurate as its brevity permits, but I did not propose a "consensus ethics...
...Negroes are in Army combat units in proportionately high numbers-23% of the troops in combat v. 11% of the U.S. population -is a sign of discrimination. But the numbers, far from indicating discrimination, actually add to the evidence that the Negro has found in the armed forces the fair and opportunity-full society that is still rare in most sections of civilian life. Some of the units with the highest percentages of Negroes are all-volunteer, and Negroes re-enlist in the Army at a rate (49%) nearly four times that of whites...
...Creep. Idiot. Nut. Fool. Punk. Dirty s.o.b." For five weeks, three defendants hurled those epithets at Pittsburgh Judge Albert A. Fiok. At times, they threatened his life. Determined to avoid any conceivable grounds for reversal by a higher court, Fiok took it all for the sake of "a fair and impartial trial." Some trial. In frontier days, the defendants would have been hanged on the spot...
...from Princeton, with a three-year stint as a Marine Corps lieutenant in between to sober him up. The aristocratic, 6-ft. 3-in. Hoving (who often beats traffic by buzzing around town on his motorcycle) is still brash enough to have called Robert Moses' World's Fair Unisphere "a great big heavy clunk" and battled A. & P. Millionaire Huntington Hartford over his desire to encroach on Central Park with a café restaurant...