Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevailing view in Washington, as one Administration policymaker put it, was that "there's little we can do at this stage." The judgment is undoubtedly correct, but the seeming inability of the U.S. to influence events in Iran could have a serious impact on Washington's relations with other states in the Middle East's crescent of crisis. Ever since Mos cow moved to make Ethiopia its chief client on the Horn of Africa, the Saudis have complained about the waning of U.S. influence in the area. Says a State Department analyst: "The Saudis are taking...
Chairman Al Ullman, who was at first disdainful, noted there is "increasing resignation" that the proposal might pass in some form. Another early critic, Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which must also pass on the measure, now says he is reserving final judgment until after the House acts...
...half liberation, because it bases everything on economic determinism ignores spiritual dynamics. The result, he said, is that man's very being is "reduced in the worst way." Today, he said, "human val ues are trampled on as never before." Implicit in his statements was a basic judgment: the tactics of Marxist revolution, based as they are on class conflict, violate the most profound Christian teaching...
Little, Brown's republication of Waugh's dozen best novels provides a fresh opportunity to appreciate how skillfully he balanced between satire and romance. Most important, these handsome new editions reconfirm Edmund Wilson's 1944 judgment that Waugh "is likely to figure as the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw." Characters like Lady Margot Metroland, Mayfair hostess and procuress of Decline and Fall, Mrs. Melrose Ape of Vile Bodies, the American evangelist modeled on Aimee Semple McPherson, Basil Seal, highborn wastrel of Black Mischief and Put Out More Flags...
...criticism has one failing, it may in fact be that overfondness for the jugular. Yet even the most contentious critics, like Gary Deeb, 33, of the Chicago Tribune, are closer than their predecessors to the journalistic ideal of accuracy and informed judgment. Whether they have any real impact on television is less certain, but none of them doubt the seriousness of their subject. "It's our principal medium," says Shales. "Television is more important than theater or film. It's a shared experience unlike anything people have ever known...