Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reductio ad absurdum, that would establish a principle that fame, not the truth, shall make you free. All a defendant's constitutional guarantees remain, but the basis of the jury system is still a faith that in the end, jurors are rationally capable of rendering judgment, as if they were kicking Dr. Johnson's rock. ∙Lance Morrow
...President, in fact, had good political reasons for going up to the Hill. His decision to grant the pardon had shaken public confidence in his candor and judgment and damaged the chances of G.O.P. candidates in the November elections. Indeed, the initial reaction from Democrats in Congress to Ford's self-invitation was anger at Subcommittee Chairman William L. Hungate for inadvertently giving Ford the chance to get off the hook...
...President off from the real world if he does not fight it tooth and claw. It is little things like shoe trees and water pitchers that keep a President anchored to the ground on which the rest of the people walk. They are the tiny nerve ends of judgment. If enough of them are dulled from nonuse, a President can slip into narcosis...
Chinatown. I reserve judgment on this controversial picture until I see it again under competent circumstances. But Polanski seemed cold and showy in this movie, and to cut off possibilities for making points by creating character so self-interested and manipulative that they never even hint at what they really feel...
...very seriously--perhaps particularly so because I was a student at Yale in its first years of coeducation. I watched the Yale administration, after a stormy first year of marriage, refashion its female student body in the perfect image of a wife. It is inevitable that whoever sits in judgment will select students according to those qualities he or she most esteems. But at present, I think that female applicants will fare better if the eyes of the beholder belong to someone likewise born female...