Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction to the Chappaquiddick mystery once again illustrates that in the processes of public judgment, perhaps the most powerful factors are appearance and imagination. Scandal is a relative matter. How people react to an alleged or suspected indiscretion depends on time and place, on who knows and who tells, on the prestige-and vulnerability-of the persons involved. Pure caprice is often a factor. What one man gets away with for a lifetime may destroy another overnight. Charles Parnell fell from power because of the honest love of a married woman, while his near-contemporary, David Lloyd George, remained Prime...
...Kennedy asked for a public judgment of his actions. Editorials have been written, letters have been sent and polls have been taken. How does TIME'S mail count stand? How many letters have you received on the subject and what's the verdict...
...began to drop hints to the KGB that a new underground journal was about to be published by a group of his colleagues, including Poet Evgeny Evtushenko. Kuznetsov does not make clear whether his fabricated story actually placed those writers in any real danger. But he passes a tortured judgment on himself as well as other Soviet intellectuals. "I now believe," he says, "that the main reason why many highly intelligent and able people do not escape from there is because the Soviet regime has forced them to commit such cowardly acts that no amount of repentance can absolve them...
Reviewing the judgment, Zambian High Court Justice Ifor Evans ruled that the offense was "trivial" and quashed the conviction. In addition, Justice Evans, who is white, noted that the original verdict "did not redound to the credit of the Zambian authorities...
...hear the sound of good, solid judgment whenever you talk...