Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prefer not to," Zorinsky said. "I think the time has come to make the decision by myself rather than be with the President. I don't want him to influence my judgment...
...bamboo poles, biodegradable tees, and ammonium chloride balls allow the winter golfer to frolic in the snow in relative comfort. Such devices, of course, might alarm golfing traditionalists. Died in the wool golfers would be likely to concur with the judgment of "Firey," the legendary Musselburgh caddie, who when the first golf bag was introduced in Scotland in 1888 remarked that it was "nae gowf...
...B.C.O.A., however, was badly divided. Many of its member corporations, subsidiaries of Big Steel or Big Oil, or completely independent, respond to widely differing business impulses. Their executives split between hard-and soft-line bargainers. Squabbling between those factions impaired the B.C.O.A.'s flexibility and judgment. Still, the coal operators tried a counterplay late Tuesday night. They issued a call for binding arbitration of the dispute. The union said...
...Kooning's seriousness as an artist and his historical achievement are of very considerable magnitude, and will always invite judgment by the highest standards of modernism. But the work of his old age is not remotely of the same order as the late works of other old men of the modernist mountain-Matisse at 80 with his colored cutouts, the last paintings of Cézanne, Monet's lily ponds. That sense of exaltation, of a long life resolved and its aesthetic structures made luminously explicit, is missing. Instead, we get a lot of dash and gusto...
Milnes' vocal judgment, at least, was excellent. Verrett acted with an effective blend of charm and elusiveness. For a few years she has been trying to retrain her lush mezzo voice to sing soprano roles. The strategy seems wrong; by now the registers of her voice are as separated as the drawers of a desk. Only near the end did her singing match her style...