Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps it is unfair to send critics tickets for opening nights. Openings at times tend to seduce us from our Olympian objectivity. The atmosphere is tuxedoed and festive and charged with excitement, and everybody cheers and shouts and applauds like fury. Well, last night they had something to shout about. Yeomen of the Guard would be a delight on a rainy night in a plague year before an audience of psychopathic dope fiends. Under the conditions that prevail at Agassiz, it is an absolute, downright, unimpeachable, irreproachable, rip-roaring riot...
...Somebody was overly optimistic," he commented, but the error was soon realized. He said that since the delivery boys are now able to do their work faster than at the beginning of the year, the reduction in wages was reasonable and not unfair, especially in the light of the financial difficulty...
With every College organization, from varsity sports to the Band, being denied permission to solicit funds during the Program for Harvard College, it would seem grossly unfair for the Council, whose problems are not of an emergency nature, to enjoy such an extraordinary privilege...
...feel that the part of your Oct. 27 article on France which deals with me is both unfair and untrue. It tends to show me as a kind of would-be dictator, as a man who tries, against General de Gaulle himself, to acquire enormous powers by a one-party system. This sort of smearing campaign has been waged against me for months by Communist or extreme-leftist papers here; I must say 1 am surprised to see it resumed by a magazine with usually high professional standards...
...perhaps unfair to judge the rushing system entirely in the harsh light of the superficiality, injustice and distress which are its characteristics. Not only does it train the Rush Committees for later life, but a good rushee will emerge broad gauge. Approximately 30 percent of each class is given the advantage of this special training. Although 30 percent is a democratic enough figure, the College Dean's office reports that four fifths of this group attended private schools...