Word: judgemental
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...answers with despairing pessimism instead of cautious optimism. When Russia announced her arms cut, Secretary Dulles, a man of few and ill-chosen words, responded that "the obvious explanation" is as a propaganda tactic and a shift of manpower to industry and agriculture.... This kind of narrow pre-judgement of Russia with which the U.S. faces the world can do this country little good. It is perhaps more dangerous than naivete, because it characterizes America as stubborn, dogmatic, and incredulous...
...Stade said he could "see no merit in this idea, since it would be asking a Freshman Class to pass judgement upon something it knew nothing about...
...judges' subjective reactions, and they are seldom presented with clear-cut decisions. The system of judging, with three "non-partial" listeners casting ballots for the winning team, is the aspect of debating most often exposed to criticism. A decision, in effect, is little more than the collective judgement of three listeners from the audience...
...effective in two social-message numbers, "Mother Hare's Prophecy," and the new song-and-dance number (never before produced), "The Big Brain." But if there is musical comedy talent of professional calibre in the Harvard community, Miss Scott has it. Her wry and seemingly effortless work in "The Judgement of Paris," and especially "By A Goona-Goona Lagoon," marked two of the show's high points. Also charming in small ways were Johanna Linch, as Mrs. Juniper, and Helen Raisz, as Miss Minerva Oliver. Diana Sterling contributed an energetic moment to the production through her lead in the "Circe...
...author" in a neat 76 words. Thus at 81, Winston Churchill shows himself more garrulous by 29 words than in the original note in which the young officer of the IVth (Queen's Own) Hussars was moved to submit the book "with considerable trepidation to the judgement or clemency of the public.'' The aged Knight of the Garter adds for the current edition: "The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point...