Word: partisanship
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...Eight years later, when Harry Truman appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court, he granted that he had been "a strong partisan" in the Senate, but had put all that behind him. Returning last month from a six-week jaunt to Europe, Minton raised legal eyebrows by reverting to partisanship, endorsing Candidate Adlai Stevenson as "a very able man" and denigrating Candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower as "terribly handicapped physically." When his discretion was challenged, he blustered: "Hell, I wasn't speaking judicially...
After 19 months as their chairman, Butler knew his Democrats well: at that moment, on Adlai Stevenson's decision, he was indeed on his way out. He had dismayed party professionals with his overeager, often ill-judged partisanship, e.g., his television attack on the Columbia Broadcasting System for failing to carry the Democratic campaign movie, The Pursuit of Happiness, from the convention hall (see PRESS). Among his associates, his temper and taut nerves had earned him the nickname of "Mr. Bang." And worst of all. during the convention he had fallen out with such Stevenson advisers as Jim Finnegan...
Wyzanski, who is a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and the Ford Foundation, is a registered Democrat. His appointment therefore would have given increased bi-partisanship to the delegation, and in the event of a Democratic victory in November, he could have served as liaison to the next administration...
With a spirit of intense competition and partisanship, debating may lack the opportunities for graceful personal expression derived from acting or writing or playing a musical instrument. Instead, a debate is more like an athletic contest, as one student put it. "You go out and try to do the best with what you have. You want to win, and, as in any competitive sport, you'd be pleased even if there were no one to see you. And there is nothing inherently wrong, either, in playing your best game even if you have a poor team...
Thank you for your excellent article on Freud. It was put together with a maximum of skill and a minimum of partisanship...