Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important sense, the U.S. is now freed to make a new start, and to act with renewed vigor and judgment elsewhere in the world. But "putting Viet Nam behind us" may not be so easy, after all. Ending America's mental and emotional involvement may prove as hard as ending its physical involvement. The U.S. may have to live for some time with old?and new?nightmares...
...divided or uncertain, then the demonstrations and fury of a few can be taken as the will of the many. Even Abraham Lincoln, that most convinced of democrats, argued that all the people can be fooled (or confused) some of the time: it was democracy's long-run judgment that he would bet on. He lived in an age when rhetoric had not yet been debased. "Peace with honor" was invoked to justify the Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam; "commitment" has become a disputed phrase about what Richard Nixon did or did not promise Saigon. But surely peace...
...McCain was part of a 4-3 majority voting to hear a case that led to the reinstatement of a $100,000 libel judgment against TIME on behalf of Socialite Mary Alice Firestone Asher. The decision is now under review by the U.S. Supreme Court on grounds unrelated to the scandal...
...early '60s--the backlash that follows movie cults is inevitably louder, bitchier and more memorable than the initial shockwave that turns a movie into a classic. For years, these two warning camps have made a lot of noise about Antonioni knowing that moviegoers themselves seldom rely on their own judgment but rather trust the deductions of those who are in a position to release periodic edicts...
Dylan and his admirers have often been an loggerheads with the academic establishment, but Ricks feels that this stance has at least on Dylan's part been more of a pose than a visceral anti intellectualism. As evidence of Dylan's sensitivity to the judgment of academics. Ricks cited Dylan's hesitation on publishing his volume of poetry. Tarantula, after Allen Ginsberg warned him that it night not be well received by establishment cities...