Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when you can no ionger feel the force and logic behind Lawrence's work, the mere plots and characters on which the work is buitl do look quite foolish, peopled as they are with serious little adolescents not yet fully capable of critical self-awareness. But it is unfair to blame Lawrence, when the fault lies in Russell's lack of feeling for his material. During one scene in the novel-interestingly enough, a scene absent in the movie-Birken decries the emptiness of modern life and art. "I'm sure," he says, "life is all wrong because...
...substantive issues of rebates for meals at Hillel House-the ad hoc and token decision of the Committee to grant rebates for the first and last days of Passover (April 21 and 28) is inconsistent and unfair. The food requirements of Passover that necessitate Jewish students' eating at Hillel apply equally to all eight days of the holiday, and if the system is feasible for the first and last days of Passover, it is equally feasible for the days in between. Moreover, the problems of meals for the other Jewish holidays (which usually last two or eight days...
...unfair-labor-practice code should be applied to Congress, for certainly tying the President's corporation plan to a pay raise was not bargaining in good faith...
...Rothstein '71, president of Harvard Hillel, charged yesterday that the University administration has been "inconsistent and unfair" in its decision to grant only limited meal rebates to kosher students for the upcoming Passover holiday...
Racial discrimination in the jury box has grown far more subtle since the 1870s, when many state laws openly barred blacks as jurors. The Supreme Court has consistently struck down unfair statutes and practices. But the court has insisted only that black defendants have a right to a fair chance that blacks be on the jury, and the right is seldom fulfilled in practice: most juries are permitted to remain white. In the 1965 case of Swain v. Alabama, for example, the court upheld the conviction of a black rape suspect, even though peremptory challenges had excluded all blacks from...