Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series. Giles has been surprisingly effective in eliciting a creditable ensemble performance on this side of the Atlantic. The result is a highly entertaining show, even if it betrays some unevenness and sags a little toward the end (the text itself sags here and there, too). It would be unfair to demand the sustained glitter that a top British troupe could bring to the task, and one can be grateful for a company that comes as close as this...
...happiest knowledge and her praise.") Collier's Eve is the durable and delicious heroine of the piece. In her innocence she mistakes Sin and Death for Love and Life, but Collier does not doubt her wisdom. She is snubbed by the Archangel Raphael, feels God is unfair to Adam and, wanting a child and the pulsing power of creation, escapes from a passive, vegetarian paradise into the flux of human history...
...Unfair Trial. A jury ignorant of Watergate would be as undesirable as it would be impossible to find. Indeed the traditional concept of a jury without prior knowledge of a major case is rather anachronistic in the era of mass communications. What is important is the maintenance of objectivity in the courtroom. Trials of famous defendants have, after all, been managed before. One constitutional law expert remembers, not without irony, that the perjury conviction of Alger Hiss survived despite claims that earlier congressional hearings had prejudiced the case. (Congressman Richard Nixon, of course, felt that the hearings were both necessary...
When we Ameliorants graduated from Jordan, our class had average grades of only 1.6 on a 4.0 scale. That situation has improved some, to 2.25, but last month Jordan still ranked lowest of all Los Angeles schools in achievement tests. Some officials say these tests are unfair, but others see a difference in the students. "These kids come to school believing that academic education is not going to solve many of their problems," says one. "They are more quiet now because they're searching deeper for answers...
...plan to give time to the Democrats for rebuttals to Nixon speeches was challenged by Republicans and ruled unfair by the Federal Communications Commission. CBS waged a successful court fight against the FCC ruling, but by then the "equal time" provisions in force for the 1972 presidential campaign made the plan impractical until after the election...