Word: judgment
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Fact: The National Labor Relations Board an independent government agency that regulates and arbitrates all labor-management disputes, has thrown out four separate Teamsters' claims against Cardinal in this matter. Not once has the government held that the Teamsters have sufficient cause to warrant a judgment...
...what ifs" of one page become the self-evident conclusions of a few pages later, large leaps of judgment--on the 1960 election, Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs--are made from shaky perches. And while it's true that muckrakers have to find a lot of their informants in the muck, some of Hersh's most sensational claims come from sources who have had trouble with the law or, like Exner, have told different versions of the same stories in the past. He sometimes acknowledges those problems in his text but nonethelesss doesn't hesitate to put faith...
Journalism is often called the first, rough draft of history. In some ways The Dark Side of Camelot is just that. Hersh has done the spadework that the writing of history requires, but it also requires judgment, prudence and a willingness to be satisfied sometimes with ambiguous conclusions when human nature (and the best-seller list) prefers the comfort of certainties...
...subtitle Millennium Approaches refers not only to the mid-1980s setting of the play, but, more trenchantly, to an imminent judgment--divine, humane, you name it. The numerous personalities in Angels in America are all fending off the scourges of their particular moment in history: AIDS, bribery, addiction, isolation. Prior Walter (Jesse Hawkes '99) announces early in the play that he has HIV, or as he terms it, with typical flamboyant humeur, "The Foreign Lesion; I'm a Lesion-aire, Lesion-aire's disease...
Yast said Woodward demonstrated neglect and lack of judgment...