Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis around which the family can rally. If familial solidarity is dependent upon crises and thunder eggs, then I am all for a broken home. The very values for which the disciple family stands are, essentially, those values that the youth of today is intent upon rejecting. The value judgment that girls are not given contraceptives because they are more interested in becoming women than in sleeping around, is an absurd answer to the so-called sex problem of the generation. It is not an assessment of the problem, it is a denial of its existence and of its causes...
...press. The one issue when such a change is unlikely is that which appears in the first week of the year. That issue-next week's-is reserved for the Man of the Year. By traditional definition, he (or she) is the person who, in the judgment of the editors, dominated the news of the past year and left an indelible mark -for good or ill-on history. A year ago we chose not an individual but a whole generation that was making a special impact on life all around the world: "Youth: Twenty-Five and Under...
...unusual." This, he thought, was particularly true of the penalties that are provided for pushers. As for the alleged similarity between alcohol and marijuana, the judge was not persuaded. While alcohol is an intoxicant, it is also a relaxant, he said; marijuana is used only to intoxicate-a judgment with which some users would disagree...
Such lapses of judgment only serve to point up the huge generation gap between children's film makers and their audience. Somehow-with the frequent but by no means infallible exception of Walt Disney-Hollywood has never learned what so many children's book-writers have known all along: size and a big budget are no substitutes for originality or charm. The greatest works remain those that keep their audience in mind by thinking small...
...Charles IV gives ironical depth to an already profound picture. By stripping away his own mask of detachment and presenting a self as warped by passion as any of his royal subjects, the artist seems to suggest that whatever frailty they symbolize, it is one that he cannot pass judgment upon...