Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty resolved in part to deplore the seizure. Only the most partisan will quarrel with this decision, relating as it does to not only occupation of a key University building, but forceful ejection of deans and other personnel, and theft and dissemination of confidential University materials. The Faculty has also been construed in the press, however, as deploring with virtually equal stress the Administration's response to the seizure. This I understand was not at all the intention of many participants in Friday's meeting, but the fact remains that Faculty failed to differentiate sharply and emphatically between the seizure...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A LIFE STORY, by Carlos Baker. The long awaited official biography offers the first complete and cohesive account of a gifted, troubled, flamboyant figure who has too often been recollected in fragmentary and partisan memoirs...
Morton retreated, allowing as how the National Committee would be glad to help publicize opposition views as well. Nixon insisted that he respects the views of ABM opponents and does not regard the issue as a partisan one. But he does not really want Morton to move away from open partisanship, will expect greater party solidarity than he is now getting on Safeguard. Despite Nixon's avowed respect for ABM dissenters, he confirmed a decision not to name Cornell Vice President Franklin Long, a noted chemist, to head the Na tional Science Foundation, because Long opposes...
...earlier critical study of Hemingway's writing and sometime novelist himself-is the scholarly inheritor of Hemingway's papers. He has used the material to fashion the first solid, cohesive and convincingly authentic account of a lifetime most often presented in the past in fragments by partisan observers. The book's great additional merit is that it forces readers to take Hemingway whole. After Baker, Ernest the Good and Ernest the Bad will never again be quite so neatly, so conveniently and so misleadingly separated...
Miracle and Myth. In the eyes of Motherwell, who admittedly is a fond partisan, there are three reasons for her new renown. The first is her own talents. "Helen is a miracle," he says, "in that her art is very complete and at the same time abstract-her work is full of people, animals, flowers, and so on-but very highly transformed, so that only a very sophisticated person can see it." The second has to do with the fact that she is a woman, and "the myth is that when a woman is an artist, she tends to become...