Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this fails." While White House Press Secretary Jody Powell agreed that there was "no guarantee of success," he stressed that "without a major effort such as this, the prospects for failure are almost overwhelming." If the U.S. permitted such a failure, added a formal White House statement, "the judgment of history and of our children will rightly condemn...
...crowd noises of the '60s. Only now has the canon been appraised as a coherent statement about the possibilities of secular salvation. One sentence in The Fall, Camus's last published novel, sums up a life and a work: "Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every...
Expos 13 provided a small but cherished opportunity for those talented enough to enter it. In abolishing the course Richard Marius has taken a radical step without adequate justification. He has embittered his colleagues and called his own judgment and competence into question. --Chris Knowlton...
...much until the summer of 1980, when the network will automatically command the air waves with the Moscow Olympics. Silverman himself seems to lean toward that timetable. "If I had a crystal ball and predicted what television will look like by the end of 1980," he says, "my judgment would be that CBS and NBC would be on top. But what I learned from Supertrain is that there really are no short cuts, no substitute for careful thought and movement in very deliberate ways. This business of coming in with smoke and mirrors and doing a hat trick is nonsense...
...your article on Evelyn Waugh [Feb. 12], you mentioned Edmund Wilson's 1944 judgment on Waugh, but you didn't quote Waugh's reaction when in 1962 the interviewer for Paris Review asked him if he found Wilson's criticism helpful...