Word: judgemental
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...Ralph realizes he'll be trusting the judgement of men like (Sam) Mele, (Frank) Malzone and (Eddie) Kasko later on anyway," Sullivan said, "so he's trusting them...
Many of Lippmann's friends and followers totally abandoned faith in his judgement as he muted any strong criticism of Nazism in his columns. Here, Steel treats Lippmann's irresolution along with his entire life of repressed Judaism with tactful compassion, but he does not come down hard enough on Lippmann for his waffling during the Holocaust. If many writers could find the courage to criticize Nazi atrocities, the evasion of responsibility by one of the most outspoken American journalists demands more scrutiny than Steel deigns to present...
Still, Heymann concentrates the greatest portion of American Aristocracy on Rober Lowell (1917-1977), the greatest literary talent of all the Lowells. Although Heymann remains reluctant to form a judgement on the matter, Harvard did little for Lowell's career. In addition to the burdens Robert Lowell carried with him, he found the University "stifling in its approach to the humanities and its indifference to anything that could be construed as modern. The Advocate rejected his poems and cut him from its comp. T.S. Eliot later described the Advocate of that time toThe Paris Review as an arena for literary...
...test anxiety scale for children developed by Yale researchers found that test anxiety scores were higher among low academic achievers than among the high achievers and that test anxious children typically react with strong unconscious hostility against others who they think are passing judgement on their adequacy as persons. This feeling may undermine the morale and capacity to perform well on tests by some minorities...
Normally, such experiments involving Harvard students are investigated by the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects. However, because the study is not funded through the University, the Committee relies on the judgement of the 21-person Institutional Review Board at McLean Hospital to assure that the study poses no unnecessary risks to the subjects, and that the anticipated benefits of the study outweigh the possible side effects...