Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the haste and absence of controversy surrounding Congress' recent four-year extension of the draft, critics of the bill have wondered why there has been little pressure from college students to change a system that seems, to them, unimaginative, unfair, and somewhat hypocritical. Assuming that students constitute a group most personally interested in draft legislation, the critics wonder whether lack of information, lack of patriotism, or a sense of fatalism has caused the silent acquiescence with which colleges have greeted the extension...
...conceive of their having no manners--unless, evidently, you are Stephen Aaron, who directed this production. Mr. Aaron: a gentleman never sits while a lady is standing, especially if the lady is a Lady, and no less if "she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair." Moreover, a fashionable young man of the Wildean haut monde would never dream of endangering the seat of his immaculate trousers by sitting on the floor. These are minor matters, but they indicate that the nicely calibrated judgment and control that Mr. Aaron exercised over Six Characters is missing here...
While it would be unfair to Premier Khrushchev to consider Prime Minister Macmillan's recent Russian trip a triumph for the West, much more has been gained by it than might have been expected...
...policies of the Atomic Energy Commission don't even get a fair trial any more--so, at least, claimed Commissioner John McCone, who said that his proposals were attacked by Congressional Democrats before they had even heard them. But if such attacks are unfair, their foundation is at least understandable: despite his resignation, the image of ex-Commissioner Lewis Strauss still looms large in Congress's picture...
...this suggestion is most unfair, for the Radcliffe wardrobe is practical, concealing, and suitably unstriking. It would be dangerous to demand more than this, and the recent assertion of independence from the norms of femininity must be applauded as most Radcliffe...