Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been intended in part as a rationalization for his suicide, though some Japanese have suspected that he killed himself, on a crank's political pre text, because his creative powers were failing. Western readers will have to wait for the rest of the tetralogy to make a judgment. The first two works are sometimes stunningly good; yet in both there is an odd moral frigidity, a special chill evident in his earlier works as well. For all his gifts, Mishima seems to have written too often with the dead pan menace of the kendo expert...
...self-interest alone, Wicker said, the relatively privileged members of his Harvard audience ought to "stand in the years to come for something nearer to equality--equality in material things--something nearer to equality for the poor, and something closer than what we have now, in my judgment, to individual liberty and justice for all of us," for this is what would be required to "alleviate many of the social tensions that have plagued our lives in recent years...
...political judgment lay behind McGovern's initial decision to make his minimum income proposal--but it was a judgment tied to the political situation before the primaries, not to the situation in which McGovern might find himself as the Democratic candidate or front-runner. In late 1971, McGovern was running far behind Muskie as the party favorite. His main hope was to stand out to the left of the party on the issues and thus increase its support from the left-leaning, issues-conscious wing of the party which was already attracted to him by his stand on the Vietnam...
...concept plan is based on the best professional judgment of consultants on what sort of land uses are marketable," Robert Remer of the CRA, says. "In the end what gets built is what the developers are interested in and think they can build...
...TWENTY years since Lionel Trilling made his famous comment that, as an intellectual tradition, American conservatism was nothing more than a series of "irritable mental gestures" masquerading as ideas, a considerable body of work by conservative thinkers has appeared to decisively refute that judgment. Indeed, crawling out from under the shambles of many Great Society programs, liberal intellectuals have actually lost the initiative to their conservative counterparts in such crucial areas as urban renewal. Writers like Irving Kristol, James Burnham, and Robert Nisbet are saying things that need to be said at this particular juncture -- that we are putting...