Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frequent than history and texts record. Lucky for us that President John F. Kennedy was conscious of military fallibility when he so brilliantly resolved the Cuban crisis in 1962. With due respect to our dedicated and loyal military leaders, let us hope that our President will never subordinate his judgment to theirs, particularly in this age of the bomb...
...provide space for an 84,240-word report on the two conventions written to fit the monthly deadline of a magazine, there remains at least one more problem. What if a reporter launches himself into a "subjective" account that doesn't seem "true" to whoever is entrusted to pass judgment upon truth and rightness? And if the reporter has aligned himself with the "wrong" side, who is to decide that this is so? The logic in attempting to provide unequivocal truth and rightness, then, is subject to infinite regression...
...same time, it is only fair to note that one newspaper reporter--perhaps unfairly, and not dispassionately--described Mailer during his arrest as "smiling wanly." It was a choice of words--a subjective comment, a personal judgment--that in the opinion of Mailer not only was wrong, but infuriating...
...perhaps lecture to regular classes at M.I.T. Jerome Wiesner, provost of M.I.T., said Wednesday that the AWOL soldier has "no official status at M.I.T.. He is not a lecturer and not a student. A professor who chooses to invite him to his classes does so on his own judgment...
...view of women themselves. This is the idea that men must struggle to achieve manhood, they must prove themselves in all sorts of tests, while women are women and must transcend the failings of their sex to attain their ideal condition. Manhood is a title conferred; womanhood is a judgment to be escaped. They say "he's a man" in praise of any manifestation of worth; the equivalent for women is "she's a real person." "She's a woman" is said in reference to sexual performance...