Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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would not attempt to pass judgment on the educational format...
...Congress, and in a few months we had a President in office who had never been submitted to the popular vote. Many political commentator's at the time noted how unfair it was that the American people would have to wait 2 1/2 years before they could actually pass judgment on Mr. Ford. They pointed out that if he were to win the election in 1976, it would undoubtedly be due to the fact that people had grown accustomed to him as President; were he never imposed upon the people in the first place, he would never have stood...
...disagree with Mr. Daly's comment in your story: "If this raw material is the best The Crimson can beg, borrow or steal, I feel sorry for its readers." To the contrary, my considered judgment is that The Crimson is fulfilling a basic tenet of American journalism in publishing news without fear or favor and opening a public matter to public scrutiny, discussion and hopefully constructive action in the best tradition of newspapers...
Wright's judgment has been accepted by many editors who know that, of all features, the editorial cartoon is the least imitable by TV. Cartoonists have been encouraged to explore new forms: Jules Feiffer's psychiatric monologues have spawned a generation of imitators; Garry Trudeau's campus favorite, Doonesbury, is bringing politics back to the comic strip. Moreover, because cartoons are a major journalistic attraction, editors are often tolerant of artistic statements that would not be welcome in a prose piece. Says Herblock: "A lot of newspapers run my stuff even though they don't agree...
...Samuel Johnson, Henry James, and all those who don't write as they talk, including, of course, Connolly). His lifetime hobby was drawing up lists of those who made literature what it is today, culminating in that half book, half catalogue, The Modern Movement. Connolly loved the sweeping judgment: "The greatest single poem of the first half of the twentieth century . . ." turns out to be the Four Quartets. "If there is one key book of the twentieth century . . ."-a clause which, with Connolly, can lead only to Proust. But despite all those reviews in the Observer and then...