Word: partisanship
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...into this duel that the President of the U.S. stepped with an intuition about politics in 1954 which both parties could profit by. Dwight Eisenhower believes firmly in party responsibility, but, said he, the times are too perilous for extreme partisanship. Moreover, the people of the U.S. know the difference between political wild-talk and fact, and are likely to elect and re-elect on the basis of performance...
Unlike the smallish crowds that watch tennis with Emily Post decorum in the U.S., Australian tennis zealots turn out by the thousands, even for minor tournaments. And they would no more think of repressing their natural partisanship than a crowd of U.S. baseball fans. A visiting American can expect to have his court errors lustily cheered, can count on cries of "Lout!" and "Mug!" if he shows temper or disgruntlement...
...College groups without conclusively establishing its position within the Committee, the Council at once put itself at a disadvantage. The Council delegate never fully understood how far he could commit the Council with the other undergraduate groups. And no provision was made for coping with inevitable problems of political partisanship which a meeting of groups so diverse as the Liberal Union and the Young Republicans would produce. As a result, there were charges and counter-charges which could only discredit the Council and hinder the cause of academic freedom. Were the ruckus stirred by a meeting on parietal rules...
...Democratic party organ. Last year, we supported Henry Cabot Lodge and Christian Herter in their election fights, as well as a number of other Republicans in state and city elections. We have decided to advocate a number of principles, which we think do not necessarily denote any kind of partisanship. And we do respect the opinions of certain men above those who have proven that they will make any kind of unsubstantiated statement for the sake of publicity. We feel strongly, therefore, that every paper has a responsibility to be intelligently subjective, to discriminate among various statements by different...
...such a situation, partisanship colors one's viewpoint, but it's outrageously impudent for any attack to be made on a university without giving the whole story. We'll take our revenge by defeating Harvard in football next year, not by trying to smear her name...