Word: judgemental
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...burdensome refugees back to their homes. It must have been this self-interest that piqued the Nixon administration, for the State Department pronouncement on the matter blamed India alone for the situation on the subcontinent. George Bush, then ambassador to the United Nations, labeled India's action "aggression"--a judgement that drew heavy criticism at home. As John P. Lewis, then dean of Princeton's school of public affairs, wrote in an op-ed piece for The New York Times, "We have managed to align ourselves with the wrong side of about as big and simple a moral issue...
Bogart Jackson had all the skills at his disposal. His muscular legs allowed him to drive with uncommon force; his cat-like reflexes and vision gave him uncanny distance judgement and an unusual capacity to escape sandtraps and rough. He had a steady putting stroke and knew the nuances of the elusive game as well as anyone on the big tour. Yet Bogart Jackson was 25 years old and still scrambling to make it, hanging around courses at dawn to finish his round before the stars started theirs. This December, he told himself, he would succeed. And by the time...
...national security adviser's receipt of $1000 from a Japanese magazine and subsequent memory lapse on the subject obscures the more important questions about him. We certainly don't know his motives in the case; but we must agree with his own assessment that he showed "bad judgement." But regardless of his culpability in the thousand-dollar-caper, Allen has demonstrated both before and after his appointment to this key post a remarkable unsuitability to it. President Reagan would be doing us all a service by dismissing Allen immediately...
...written glowing professional recommendations for Dr. Arif Hussain, failing to mention his rape conviction handed down only a few weeks earlier. Administrators at both institutions expressed "regret" about the unfortunate incident, but they refused to comment further on the case. Instead of confronting the difficult issues raised, they deferred judgement on both the physicians' actions and the more complicated ethical questions involved to two joint committees formed within the staff of the organizations...
GREAT LINES still abound, of course. Anyone who could construct the following commentary on Proust obviously had not lost it all. "In Steinberg's judgement--and he buttresses it with a formidable array of interior evidence from the work--Proust's Madeleine was in reality a matzo ball, and the past unfolded itself to the Master as he sat hunched over a bowl of chicken soup in Flambaum's, the famous kosher restaurant in Paris..." And, almost invariably, the Perelman opening moves are as fine as always. For example, the beginning of "All Precincts Beware--Pater Tigress Loose...