Word: judgemental
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Deciding whether or not the author is creditable is the first judgement Witness requires. It is by no means the only one. Even assuming that Chambers' description of the personnel and operations of the Communist underground "apparatus" in the United States during the 20's and 30's is unimpeachable, there is still much in Witness that is unacceptable. Witness is first rate as a spy thriller and autobiography; it is second rate, at best, as political thought and philosophy...
...convinces his fellow officers they must "maintain an order we cannot understand... the world demands it--not justice but order." And in telling Billy Budd he must hang, he says, "You and Claggart have broken man's compromise with good and evil" and "I have given you the judgement of the world," and, "When you're up there on the mainyard, think of me and pray for those who have to make choices...
...report attempts, however, to study the success of the G.E program from all possible angles. "If the ultimate aim of all human education," says the report, "is the living of a better life. Involving a better judgement of values (whatever "better" may mean here), perhaps it may be said that G.E. has already jusitified itself." To this remark the committee added a qualifying footnote: "It should be remembered that we have only been evaluating G.E. within the framework of its own theory and goals...
...college administrator to act against a student merely because that student is associated with something that may be damaging for the university. By intervening, Wayne University has indicated that it believes the student is guilty when Wayne has neither the facts nor the right to make such a judgement...
...usual Coplandesque breadth of expression, there is a depth in this work, a concentration of latent forces than cannot be grasped at first hearing. It will probably be a long time before the work is fully understood by the musical public. There seemed to be certain errors of judgement in the piece however: the uninteresting piano writing in the first movement, the curiously out-of-place whimsicality of the second, and the thin, widely spaced, unpleasant harmonics near...