Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oxford University denied Lewis a professorship because his popular writings were deemed unseemly-as, indeed, was his outspoken Christianity. (He moved to a chair at Cambridge late in his career.) But Lewis has survived Oxford's judgment handsomely. Sales of Lewis' works in Britain and the U.S. have increased sixfold since his death, and this year readers in both countries will take home more than 2 million Lewis volumes. Says Lady Priscilla Collins, one of Lewis' publishers in Britain: "The trend...
...outside hand is clearly needed to guide the negotiators, to provide students and other members of the Yale community with an objective view of the issues. If university officials and union leaders are confident that their positions are just, there is no reason for them to fear the judgment of an impartial arbitrator. Both sides will probably not, of course, end up with a settlement with which they are completely happy. Yet with the strike over, Yale can get back to the business of education, and everyone should come out a winner...
...nation in going to the people, and San Francisco voters last week sampled referendums as varied and exotic as a Chinese menu. Many of the 22 items on the ballot could have been handled by a gutsy city council on a Wednesday evening. The electorate even had to pass judgment on whether each city supervisor could hire one aide who would be exempt from civil service requirements. The people said...
...agrees that Helms' mistake was in consenting to testify on sensitive CIA matters before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which was not one of the oversight committees. Some sources suggest that Helms so badly wanted to become Ambassador to Iran that he let ambition cloud his judgment...
There is something basically unpatriotic about F. Scott Fitzgerald's contention that American lives have no second acts. The tainted blessing of early success ("the victor belongs to the spoils") and a guilty sense that character is fate may have accounted for his bitter judgment. But the fact remains that the world's best-advertised nation of immigrants was built on second-even third and fourth-acts...