Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could arise again in 1977, the precedent toward easier cloture has now been set. Sentiment seems to be running against the defenders of the filibuster, including the late Walter Lippmann who once praised it as "a precious usage, invaluable to the preservation of freedom." On the ascendancy is the judgment expressed by Woodrow Wilson, who as President argued that the filibuster allowed "a little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own," to make the Senate "the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action...
General Shlomo Gazit, chief of military intelligence, discounted Egyptian support for the fedayeen. "Let's be fair with Cairo radio," Gazit said in an unusual Israeli judgment. "The only statement by Egypt was very moderate...
...Viet Nam. In Phnom-Penh, New York Democratic Representative Bella Abzug, long a vocal opponent of U.S. involvement in Indochina, remarked: "I'm concerned about the humanitarian situation, the kids' bellies. The military situation was lost long ago." Minnesota Democrat Donald Fraser was more explicit: "In my judgment, the only thing we can do is help arrange for the orderly transfer of power to the [Khmer] insurgents...
...board in the quiet desert town of Apple Valley, Calif., voted to fire high school Gym Teacher Lou Zivkovich last fall because he had appeared nude in the centerfold of Playgirl magazine, Zivkovich, 33, appealed the decision. Last week a state appeals panel admonished him for a "mistake in judgment," but ruled that he could not be fired. Zivkovich, who received $1,000 plus an expenses-paid weekend in Hawaii for his extracurricular modeling job, called the ruling a "national victory" for the rights of teachers...
...colleagues at OCS-OCL might not like the piece, but Fisher only replies that they will have to wait around for his next sculpture. It seems that Fisher has already begun planning his next, a snakish coincidence of twisted plastic pipes--again, salvaged--and that no arbitration by outside judgment will deter him. Still, the visitor is perplexed. "Aren't you a bit foolhardy?" he ventures...