Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that cliche. But it is a far more plausible explanation for the inhumanity of technocratic capitalists than the supposed social deficiencies of technocratic capitalism. And it is the only explanation for the unconcern of all of us as science undertakes the objectification and mechanization of everything human: intelligence, moral judgment, teaching, creativity, play, even child-making. As Roszak comments, it was once thought that such things were done for the joy of the-doing. Scientific culture, however, "makes no allowance for 'joy,' since that is an experience of intensive personal involvement." Nothing stands in the way of Progress...
...persuaded to do the assignment, or Bruce Davidson, or Ken Heyman, or Constantine Manos. Perhaps next time-Duncan's coverage was well received by many critics, and NBC might feel it worth doing again. If they do, though. Duncan will probably be rehired: go with a winner. Perhaps aesthetic judgment is too much to ask of the corporate mentality...
...foreign policy beyond Viet Nam. "The extent of the cost of the withdrawal has been vastly overstated," says former Under Secretary of State George Ball, who feels that other countries do not regard the war as being in the U.S. national interest. They will have more respect for U.S. judgment if it gets...
BOOKS I LOVE by John Kieran. 200 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Playing the old "books I would take to a desert is land" game, the author provides fond essays on his largely predictable choices, and an occasional sharp judgment (Rousseau is "an intellectual sharper"). Information pleasing mainly to readers who prefer Masefield to Donne, Tennyson and Kipling to Eliot...
...these positions were guided not by ideology but by a pragmatic judgment of what was good for the country's economic development as well as that country's people. I pray that dogma, anybody's dogma, will never take over the task of making such decisions...