Word: judgemental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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References to protesting civilians as "rock-throwing delinquents" and to the Palestinian civilian police as "vigilante commandos" portray the author's desperate attempt to convince the reader that his personal judgement is the truth. The claim that Palestinian police officers fired "automatic weapons upon the Israelis who armed them" overlooks the fact that these arms were purchased under the Oslo agreement, and with Palestinian money. The images purveyed by such propaganda upholds the political axiom around which Israeli hawks, and their more poorly informed counterparts in the U.S., mobilize: We have tried peace but we can not/will not trust those...
This is a scary thought in the season of Yom Kippur, when, according to Jewish tradition, our fates and fortunes for the coming year are determined. The prayers we recite on this holiest of days do not speak of housing lotteries or exam groups. "On Yom Kippur judgement is sealed: who shall live and who shall die: who shall rest and who shall wander; who shall be comforted and who shall be tormented," reads one of the more poignant prayers of the day. We are reminded that there are important and genuinely frightening life issues that we sometimes lose sight...
...Report poll describe President Clinton as somewhat or very dishonest, and 70 percent of Americans in the same poll characterize Dole as somewhat or very moral while at the same time casting their votes for Clinton, society must be sending a message. Americans today have either lost their moral judgement or relegated it to the lowest position on the hierarchy of issues upon which they choose their political candidates...
...done well. Viewers will have flashbacks to a wide array of adventure, sci-fi, and apocalyptic classics: "Star Wars," "Top Gun," "Alien," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," and TV movie landmarks like "V," and "The Day After." Even the acronym-based ad campaign reminds one of "Terminator 2: Judgement...
...teaches government here, contends, good government requires what he calls "successful republican (small r, to be sure!) soulcraft" and involves a gentler kind of tutelage. For example, the political economy of citizenship that informed 19th-century American life sought to cultivate not only commonality but also the independence and judgement to deliberate well about the common good. It worked not by coercion or deprivation as most of the present politicians advocate but by a complex mix of persuasion and habituation, what Alexis de Tocqueville, the French observer called "the slow and quiet action of society upon itself...