Word: judgemental
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...welcomed. Bostonians--who enjoyed a high standard of living--were generally smug about living in the country's religious and cultural center. "The morality of Boston is more pure than that of any city in America," Bronson Alcott wrote in 1828, and the citizens of Cambridge extended his judgement to themselves...
...great deal of pressure not to make mistakes, because any mistake could prove fatal. Fatal in what way? Cox says quietly the most innocuous thing would be the government deciding to close the paper and jail the editors. The violence in Argentina is so severe that an incorrect judgement on the part of a writer or editor could result in being "machine-gunned down in the street...
Because of the harsh wording of the termination letter, which charged Kohutka with "poor judgement and inexcusable behavior" (residential property manager Kenneth Daly later said he had broken a "moral code"), Kohutka was unable to get a new job. Even the unemployment office told him that it was his "own fault" he had been fired and that he would have to wait six weeks for his first check...
...judge's ruling that the film was not obscene, Droney remarks that Alberti was "dead wrong on the obscenity issue." But Droney is not heartless--referring on at least one occasion to Stork and Hagen as "the children," he blames Dershowitz for the entire incident. "I believe in my judgement he would put the issue before the welfare of the students," he said, explaining why he refused to meet with Dershowitz before agreeing to the arrest and the seizure of the film...
...want to be nickel-and-dimed to death by details" lest he be forced to remember his principles; Henry Kissinger suddenly forgot about detente and linkage and all those things he so slyly sculpted while Secretary of State; even Bush-haters from Texas and North Carolina reserved their judgement until after the election...