Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House spokesman showed bad judgment in claiming that since there were times during the past Administration when millions of Americans felt they couldn't watch the TV news with their children, reducing that number to only one family in Illinois could be seen as progress. Still, Elizabeth Dole remains enormously popular, and the Democrats are indulging in wishful thinking, not to speak of poor taste, with their constant demands for an investigation of what they persist in calling "Tinklegate...
...Merchant of Venice works up from its simple beginning, whirling through widening spirals of hatred and loss. A strange, contradictory suspense builds throughout the play, and the judgment scene in which Shylock calls in his bond before the law is riveting. Hillel Drama, through its shrewd interpretation of Shakespeare's work, uncovers the ironies and contradictions in the text, creating a true and more effective production...
...with the demonstrations in China. They were spontaneous." Indeed, on the day of the protest, a visibly annoyed Premier Zhu received four delegates from the sect and reportedly demanded, "Who is your leader?" "We are all leaders," one replied. Zhu handed the group off to his Complaints Bureau for judgment on the issue of the group's official status and its other concern, the arrest of five members at an earlier regional demonstration...
...have lived more than three times your years, have rarely understood the occurrences and the people in the world that I have pretended to give order to. Yet I write sentences that end in periods. An odd word, sentence, don't you think? It means an authoritative decision, a judgment (one is sentenced in a courtroom), as well as a definite part of the language. Yet anybody who writes one knows that in reality sentences roll on and come to no conclusions; typically, they are questions disguised as answers, even cries for help...
...children also need us to help them develop good judgment in picking their way through the minefields in today's society. We need to stop treating them as miniature adults. It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all. But parents need the support of the entire community. They need leaders and business owners to help them enforce the protections already in place, from theaters turning away kids from adult-rated movies to networks promoting the V chip. Parents need the community to come up with new protections, especially...