Word: judgemental
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...editors of The Crimson, in choosing their successors each year, must do their best to confine the issues to those of merit and yet sometimes--some of them, surely--allow themselves to be influenced by friendship and political congeniality, so faculty members are not perfect machines of judgement and no doubt similarly swayed. We are all supposed to be above such considerations, yet no one can look into the heart of his colleagues and swear they are pure; indeed it is a rare man who can look honestly into his own heart. The aim here is to minimize these influences...
...guilty of a kind of inauthenticity. Momentarily blind to his own cultural ethnocentricity. Trilling implies that authenticity is a superior, "more strenuous" moral experience than sincerity: "A very considerable originative power had once been claimed for sincerity, but nothing to match the marvelous the generative force that our modern judgement assigns to authenticity, which implies the downward movement through all the cultural superstructure to some place where all movement ends, and begins." This largely uncritical statement ignores the actuality that all paradigms in their time--even, probably, the paradigm of sincerity make that same implied claim to that still point...
...inquiry to dissent from National Academy of Sciences National Research Council consumer-protection findings is somewhat unusual. It becomes questionable when we learn that the dean has been paid and sponsored by the very pharmaceutical company whose product he is defending. And if the apparent consensus of medical judgement on Mysteclin-F can be trusted, then Ebert's testimony before the FDA failed to damage the interests of medical consumers only because the advisory panel was wise enough to dismiss his arguments...
...tastes. New styles have come and gone at a pace befitting the current age with little residue or overlap from one epoch to the next. Exposure of pieces only recently considered "old" tends to emphasize their relationship to our immediate condition rather than subject them to a considered historical judgement...
There are those who would charge that the new mood simply signals Harvard's co-optation of young black leadership, that the new mood is a new Uncle Tomism. But that would be a superficial judgement. Blacks at Harvard are now beginning to realize that it is possible to participate without selling out. Coolly pragmatic, they now perceive that some of Harvard's resources can be diverted toward the liberation rather than the oppression of black people. And most of all they understand that freedom cannot be won by a single faction but only by everyone working together. They realize...