Word: slanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME chose to use an old wives' slant in reporting this story: the bad father who once committed murder passes an inherent urge to kill on to his son. Bunk! How outdated! What juicy food for the hungry minds who love to believe such nonsense...
Fuss v. Muss. The Hillcrest Country Club accepts new members only from applicants who filed before Jan. 1, 1952. When the Hillcrest case came before the city council, it met dezoning requirements by having a reported 95% of surrounding homeowners signed up with drillers who would slant-drill from the club's 145-acre golf course. At the same time the councilmen were impressed by the possibility that the city-owned Rancho golf course might be drained of oil by the adjacent movie-lot wells, thus losing potential revenue that could lighten taxes...
...spirit the theme was presented. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Birth of a Nation is based a good deal on fact; the South was terribly oppressed after the war, and the K.K.K. did begin as a messianic organization. But like Miss Stowe, Griffith selected and shaded his facts to slant his subject; the Negroes especially suffer under his direction: with the exception of a few loyal, sensitive family retainers, all Negroes are coarse, crazed, slovenly animals. In conveying the impression that people are the same now, Griffith's Reconstruction becomes an actuality in 1915. It is laughable, but a little...
...Franz Xavier Philipp, Vienna correspondent for East Germany's Communist news agency ADN, and a former longtime editor of the Soviet-sponsored Berlin daily Tägliche Rundschau. Philipp also wa fired for refusal to slant stories of th Hungarian fighting, denied ADN's charge that he was working for the U.S. Secret Service...
...days when the tricolor flew over Indo-China, there was a distinct advantage in being a metis-the offspring of a foreigner and a Vietnamese. France generously granted citizenship to any Vietnamese with even a drop of French blood. Slant-eyed Eurasians, born of French soldiers or colons, learned in school that "our ancestors were the Gallic people." Eurasian men learned to drink cognac and vin rouge, the oftimes beautiful Eurasian women to wear Chanel perfume and Paris gowns. Vietnamese of mixed blood got the best jobs, were always considered a few steps above their fellow countrymen...