Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conference, the President scoffed at such challenges. Noting that Jackson had predicted his own election to the presidency in 1976, Carter cracked, "His judgment was not very good then. "And now I am ready for the next question...
...bitter jest, Richard Conlon, staff director of the moderate-liberal House Democratic Study Group, sent out forms asking for an evaluation of the President's staff. Sample questions: How confident are you of the White House staffs judgment? How mature is the White House staff? Within a day, 160 forms were returned, filled out by House members and aides. According to Conlon, more than two-thirds of the returns listed Jordan as the least effective of Carter's aides. Said Conlon: "We did it as a spoof. The idea of a questionnaire is sophomoric...
...country. The real question is whether he has the ability to mediate successfully between radical and conservative views in an untested coalition government whose main bond of unity is opposition to Somoza. "Sergio has all the qualities necessary to be very strong," says an associate. If that judgment is correct, Nicaragua may still be able to avoid the factionalism and violence that have marred so many revolutions...
Algernon Charles Swinburne, an ardent masochist, rhymed about the pleasures of flagellation. Whippings and alcohol distorted his judgment (as E.E. Cummings put it, "Punished bottoms interrupt philosophy"), but Ober believes that the poet's problems began during the first moments of his life. He recalls Swinburne's own statement about having been born "all but dead," and diagnoses brain damage due to oxygen deprivation. Further circumstantial evidence of neuropathology included the poet's small body and outsized head, his tics and excessively nervous temperament. But his talent was not impaired. Neither was his critical acumen, at least...
...greater stupidity prevailed in high offices in Washington, where bright individuals let egos, ambition and bureaucratic momentum cloud their collective judgment. Worse yet, Wyden believes that "it could happen again...