Word: judgmental
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...quotation or a series of quotations from Indians who will figure in the history covered by the chapter. These quotes, the words of men commonly portrayed as possessing a verbal dexterity restricted to grunts, war whoops, and "Yes, Kemosabay," make a tardy but accurate and poetically expressed judgment on the men who took their land and abused it while they mumbled pious incantations about progress and destiny. Six of the book's 19 chapters conclude with the printing of the words and music to an Indian song, which often not only provides an appropriate comment on the events covered...
...finds sadly familiar: "For a mighty nation like us to be carrying on a war with a few straggling nomads, under such circumstances, is a spectacle most humiliating, an injustice unparalleled a national crime most revolting, that must, sooner or later, bring down upon us or our posterity the judgment of Heaven." Although from time to time, men like Sanborn protested and there were some white men who respected the Indian. Brown's point is that these men failed to convert their words and feelings into the types of action needed to prevent the destruction of the Indian, failed...
...good we hope to achieve through continued involvement in this war is not outweighed by the destruction of human life and of moral values which it inflicts." One bishop, the Most Rev. Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit, went so far as to say that anyone who reaches that moral judgment "may not participate...
...informal survey by TIME'S bureau chiefs across the nation, Chappaquiddick would not cut so deeply as an issue in a Kennedy run against Nixon as is commonly believed (see box, opposite). That could change if voters found themselves in the booths next November, forced to make a decisive judgment about the case. For the episode does indeed raise a serious question about Kennedy's potential behavior in the White House. One of the "boiler room" girls who attended the party that night has long been a Kennedy partisan. But she muses: "He's seen two brothers killed...
Every League coach can vote after each of his season games for as many as six outstanding players--three from his own team, three from his opponent--whose performances rate as All-American in the coach's judgment. The New England League tabulates these votes to determine its all-star team each year, according to Getchell...