Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of us simply don't know a lot of words. It doesn't really matter: I have a Newfie friend (from Newfoundland) who can say "Laird sufferin' Jesus" in so many ways that it provides specific judgment on everything from a collapsing derrick to a pretty girl at lunchtime. And I stayed on top of the Knights of Columbus building one afternoon after the work day was over, watching the tankers on New Haven Harbor turn slowly into black bugs as the sun went down behind Fisher's Island, while the man beside me, previously known to me only...
...architects who planned the project, who declared that the basic problem at the Courts "is not bricks and mortar [but] flesh and blood." On the other hand, one of his frequent critics, the Atlanta Constitution, felt the visit was worthwhile as a symbolic act. The news paper reserved judgment about its effectiveness, however, noting: "It will be interesting to see if conditions are much better at Bankhead Courts six months from...
...crux of Shaw's argument deals with the degree and tone of coverage. Neither he nor any other serious critic suggests that the press should have greeted Ford's accession with cries of alarm or should have treated the pardon routinely. News judgment is the most subjective of exercises; one editor's excess is another's sobriety. But Shaw's overall appraisal seems valid. Coverage of major running stories too often does take on a pendulum effect. The encouraging thing is that more and more journalists are worried about...
...problem was not the decision's result. No one quarreled with that. "The judgment may well have been the right one," conceded Philip B. Kurland of the University of Chicago. "But it is difficult, if not impossible, to find its justification in the unanimous opinion authored by the Chief Justice...
...that matter the needs of a state proceeding or a congressional inquiry. Nor could they understand the suggestion that a presidential claim based on national security might bar even judges from reviewing the material. "We are not told," said Columbia's Louis Henkin, "why the President's judgment ... is conclusive in some instances and hardly matters in others, or why courts can be trusted with some 'secrets' but not with others...