Word: partisanship
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...Chance, or luck, however, placed a particulalry vitriolic Yale fan behind us who insisted on labeling every member of the Harvard squad as a bum, without discriminating between one player or the next. Harvard misfortune produced more glee. My father endured through close to four quarters of the Yale partisanship behind us, until the last few moments when I noticed he had begun to cheer for Harvard. When Mike Lynch kicked his famous (or infamous) field goal my father turned around and winked at the glum Yale...
...always assumed that America's number one sport would be above such narrow partisanship; frankly, we were very disappointed. Our staff, and not a small number of the other fans in the Garden, clearly felt outraged and cheated. But the wheels move fast under Joe Perkins; during half time he talked with both grapplers and convinced them to undertake a rematch for November 6. It's almost as if Joe Perkins had ESP: it's going to be a cage match, just what we had hoped. This reporter does not have any doubts about which will...
...political neuter? There must be a certain pressure on anyone in your position to obliterate any public partisanship...
Because of its dubious proofs and Rojas's apparent partisanship, The Murder of Allende is not a brief that could persuade a skeptical jury of readers, but rather a text for true believers. And even sympathetic readers will lose patience with its sloppy style and careless organization. But if we can believe this book, it narrates a tragedy: Allende, blinded by his trust in legality and the integrity of the generals, refuses to depart from constitutional tactics in order to defend his revolution. With hindsight, Rojas points out the fatal errors of disarming the workers and preaching restraint, which together...
Passions ran so high in the Spanish Civil War that many American correspondents joined the International Brigade. The New York Times's Herbert Matthews defended his open partisanship on the ground that it would have been hypocritical to claim objectivity when he was certain that he was right. George Orwell was just as committed to Republican Spain. But he was able to see that the Stalinist left was as anxious to eliminate Spain's independent left as it was to defeat Franco...