Word: partisanship
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What was more, the Republicans were quick to blame Swainson for some political partisanship when he vetoed a bill calling for stricter voter registration in Detroit, the Democratic stronghold that the G.O.P. suspects of wholesale vote stealing last November...
...comic naiveté when he tells of his bewilderment at discovering that some admirals and generals do leak secrets to reporters. The Kennedy Government, a one-man effort by Stan Opotowsky, author (The Longs of Louisiana) and political writer for the New York Post, is fairly cohesive, but his partisanship gleams through occasionally, and there are indications of hasty reporting. The portraits in both books are sharp and journalistically clear, but the question remains why they were done; readers could achieve the same effect by pasting up newspaper or magazine stories...
...Nobody," says a fellow Bourbon Street trumpeter, "ever outblew Al." Even allowing for civic partisanship, the boast is not unreasonable. New Orleans Trumpeter Al ("The Monster") Hirt, 38, is a "center-lip" man who blows straight from the diaphragm and generates such a wind that trying to top him, testifies another associate, is like "blowing down the throat of a hurricane." In recent months, the hurricane has swirled through Las Vegas (The Dunes), Manhattan (Basin Street East) and the TV networks with an impact that has made Trumpeter Hirt one of the hottest properties in jazz...
Howard J. Phillips '62, Council president, and Roger M. Leed '61, a former member, accused the Dean of partisanship toward the Council shakeup plan proposed by William E. Bailey '62, chairman of the Dunster House Committee. Leed called Monro's attitude "highly unethical for a member of the Administration," saying that College officials should maintain a disinterested stand on the issue of Council changes...
...astute notion of telling the story of the French Revolution in terms of eyewitness stories culled from 50,000 items in the national archives. The book gives all the blooming, buzzing confusion of a new world being created but not yet comprehended or tidied up by the hindsight or partisanship of a Michelet, Taine or Carlyle...