Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conference, Governor Moore denied any knowledge of the Geological Survey's warning. A high official of the Pittston Co. was quoted by the Charleston Gazette as fatuously blaming the disaster on "an act of God." The flood, of course, was rather the result of poor engineering and poor judgment. Intensive state and federal investigations are now under way to determine its immediate cause...
...cult of madness, the far-out wing of Dionysus, has passed its judgment on reason more harshly than Nietzsche could have foreseen; but the time is coming when judgment must be passed on the Dionysiacs themselves. The irony is that as absolutes, Reason and Unreason commit the same mistake. The ideology of Reason was an attempt to escape human complexity by rising above it. The ideology of madness is an attempt to escape by plunging beneath it. Impulse to action-no hesitation in between, no regret afterward-is the romantic dream of those who envy animals and madmen...
...course, not every Press book has by any means been a best seller, but the number of duds in a scholarly sense has been. I feel, amazingly small. Judgment of the Press's list is properly left to others not connected with Harvard, but I for one would be surprised if there is a single university press in the country that would not gladly exchange its list for Harvard's. Abram Bergson Baker Professor of Economics
...that issues like the assignment of freshman men and women to Houses are essentially logistical questions, that they have very little bearing on philosophical positions. Similarly, we are told, cutting some funds here or adding some money there should not be interpreted as a reflection of any philosophical judgment, but rather an attempt--pure and uncomplicated--to save money in a time of intense financial need...
Would Nancy Reagan, first lady of California, go to an X-rated movie? "No," she replied to a reader of her column in the Sacramento Union. What's more, the former actress thinks that some recent movies have shown "an appalling lack of taste and judgment and no sense of responsibility at all." The Governor's wife concluded: "I don't think anyone wants censorship. But I'm afraid that if the picture business doesn't start to censor itself as it used to, that's exactly what will happen...