Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Such changes have contributed to the fact that leaders are increasingly naked and vulnerable. Newspapers, magazines and especially television subject potential leaders to devastating scrutiny. Says Columbia University Historian Henry Graff: "We have become a nation of Madame Defarges. We sit in judgment on our political leaders because we know them so well. We have a kind of Naderism in politics. For the first time since man came down out of the trees, government no longer operates in a cocoon of mystery. I suppose the world changed a lot when Eisenhower's bowel movements were described by Paul Dudley White...
...discount experience. Someone may remind you that Napoleon led armies before he was 30 and Alexander the Great died at 33. Alexander might have been even greater if he had lived to an older age and had had more experience. In this respect, I especially like [the] theory that 'judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment...
...going literary view, by contrast, is that Solzhenitsyn's fame depends on politics more than art, that he is a great man, but not a great writer. That is probably a shortsighted judgment. In America it will be necessary to wait for first-rate translations of his books, since each succeeding volume (Gulag will be no exception) stirs more than the usual storm about inaccuracies and betrayal of spirit that mars most translations. More important, one will have to see completed the already vast and elaborate mixture of fact and fiction through which he is attempting to restore...
That is why, in the following 27 pages, TIME presents a portfolio of 200 young American leaders. The number 200 is arbitrary. So is the definition of youth, which ends at 45, at least in our judgment and in that of a contemporary dictionary. We know that growth is possible well past 45 and that many people do not discover their leadership qualities until much later. But we wanted to draw attention to a rising generation...
...what to print and what not to print. Despite the public's frequently naive faith in "objective," just-the-facts reporting, every newsman must interpret and judge; which things to put in among various indisputable facts and what to leave out often constitutes the most important form of judgment...