Word: judgemental
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...survive: old moral structures are anachronistic, love is accidental. The memories are those of an elderly woman who is caught in the new world, unsure of her ability to adapt. Because she can remember the past, she sees her present objectively, aware of its insanity yet unable to pass judgement because, as she says. "I had abandoned all expectations of the ordinary for my inner world, my real life in that place." One cannot measure the world against the old standards when the abnormal has become normal--one can only struggle to understand, to survive...
...enlightened community to look beyond the gut connotations of identimats to their real, innocent purpose. But there is still something to be said for the gut reaction. The technology involved in the new machines is forbidding in itself--electronic gadgetry scanning your fingers, read and green lights rendering judgement. If a simple, Thurberian mistrust of machinery were not sufficient reason to fear and detest and hand-print machine, there would still be the cool efficiency that would replace the myopic checkers. At Harvard, as elsewhere, we've come to treasure inefficiency as a substitute for less capricious guarantees of benevolence...
...rider can go over the course alone prior to the competition, but the horse is seeing the jumps for the first time. Much of the success of the horse in jumping relies on the judgement of the rider as to the speed of the mount, the angle of approach...
This is not the place to defend either a woman's right to determine the outcome of an unwanted pregnancy in consultation with a physician, or the right of a physician to exercise his best judgement. The Edelin decision and the continued prosecution of other City Hospital doctors are outrages to these rights. It is encouraging that Edelin is appalling the conviction, and that a state law that attempts to duplicate the effects of the decision in Rhode Island has been rejected by the courts. But it is regrettable that such a process of salvaging alienated rights ever...
...Independent universities are a source of independent critical judgement," Heimert says. "One of the reasons historically for academic freedom is so that ideas can develop separately from political judgment...