Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notion of an independent-or, as Joseph Pulitzer called it, "indegoddampendent"-press takes care of all that really needs taking care of. Dropping the adversary label might diminish the justified sense of unfair treatment felt by so many officials. It might even lessen the press's own complacent tolerance of so much of the jostling and hectoring behavior that, when seen on television, the public finds so objectionable...
Opening night could have been a dress rehearsal, so it might be unfair to base these judgments on it. Shortly before the play began, the director called out instructions over my head to a stage-manager, concerning when to lower the lights, cue the actors, that sort of thing. There were less than 20 people in the audience, and the most vociferous of them departed after hooting and cheering for the sexton with a toothache, Jeff Woolf (who seemed so pleased with his performance and his fans that he could barely keep a straight face). Throughout the evening, people drifted...
...more than an hour. Jordan told Lance that he was embarrassing Carter, even endangering his presidency, and that he must get his muddled financial affairs in order. Lance was alternately indignant and deflated, sometimes loud in his anger. He insisted that Jordan's criticism was unjustified and unfair...
...time have difficulty coping with a double set of parents. For this reason, some experts have recommended that foster parents be allowed to bar visits by real parents. But, warn Fanshel and Shinn, a "cavalier readiness" to drum natural parents out of a youngster's life is both unfair to them and dangerous to the child...
...would be unfair not to acknowledge that Greene has had good reason for championing this posture of contemptuous detachment in the past. In several of his books set in the Third World, his jaded protagonists have stood in direct contrast to the crusading idealists who set out to save the world and end up wreaking more havoc than happiness. The most memorable and, sadly, the most prescient example of this theme came in Greene's The Quiet American, about Vietnam in the days when the Americans were still only supplying arms to the French. The reformist zealot there...