Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibition is especially interesting in other respects as well. It falls between two shows at Busch-Reisinger of German art of the twentieth century in Harvard collections, an art which is being shown more and more at the moment. The comparison, in terms of quality, is an unfair one. Picasso's oft misquoted statement of how unimportant he feels next to the Spanish masters of the past, testifies to this. But a comparison of the newly hailed German expressionism with the fifteenth century group is as significant for the resemblances which unite them as for the genius which separates them...
...experts it seemed likely that Libya had been motivated by E.N.I.'s relative lack of capital, its undistinguished record in finding oil in Italy, and the understandable reluctance of a former Italian colony to admit an Italian government corporation to its territory. Enrico Mattei had a simpler explanation: unfair pressure on the Libyan government by U.S. oil companies...
...general blanket boycott of Roman Catholic candidates for public office seems unwise and unfair." So says Paul Blanshard, the lawyer-author who almost a decade ago-in his book American Freedom and Catholic Power-sweepingly attacked Catholic influence in the U.S. But to his plea for fairness. Blanshard added some major qualifications. Voters, he suggested (in a revision of his book to be published in March), should ask three questions of any Catholic candidate for the presidency...
Assistant Attorney General Samuel H. Gaffer ruled last Dec. 20 that "A request for photographs before the student is admitted . . . is an unfair educational practice under the Fair Educational Practices...
...passed in 1949, states, "It shall be an unfair educational practice for an educational institution . . . to cause to be made any written or oral inquiry concerning the race, religion, color, or national origin of a person seeking admission." Harvard usually has requested photographs from applicants to all sections of the University...