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...iconoclastic Geriatrician Edward J. Stieglitz, 57, of Washington, D.C. Complains Cowdry: "Medicine has shunned geriatrics. It has viewed the elderly patient as a bad pay risk. It has misdiagnosed and maltreated him." He estimates that fully 30% of mental-hospital inmates over 65 have diseases no more "mental" than partial paralysis, heart trouble, untidiness, nutritional problems, or high blood pressure...
...Marry such women as seem good to you, two, three or four," the Holy Koran exhorts the faithful, "but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own, so it is likelier you will not be partial." Through 13 centuries, Moslem males have enjoyed polygamy and insisted that they have avoided partiality. But the truth is quite otherwise, to hear the 20,000 members of the All-Pakistan Women's Association tell it. "If any man is honest with himself and understands human nature," argued one passionate Pakistani feminist, "he will...
...partial list of selected works indicates that composers for the two performances have been chosen from a list of contemporary and Baroque musicians. Handel's Acis and Galata; Williams' Flos Campi; and Monteverdi's Tirsi and Clorinda A Ballo Concertante represent the larger works for the chorus...
...society, Brameld believes that the school will at last play its rightful role as shaper of a reconstructed world. This, Brameld insists, is not indoctrination (though he believes that the reconstructionist teacher is perfectly within his rights in using a certain amount of propaganda) but education for "defensible partiality." And what sort of society is Brameld himself partial to? Nothing less than a sort of global collectivism in which the workers of the world will unite as world citizens against all exploiting minorities. If only they are given the proper education, says Brameld, the People will find that that...
Winning, of course, depends on the judges' subjective reactions, and they are seldom presented with clear-cut decisions. The system of judging, with three "non-partial" listeners casting ballots for the winning team, is the aspect of debating most often exposed to criticism. A decision, in effect, is little more than the collective judgement of three listeners from the audience...