Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disbarred. Just as Pat was hospitalized, a court across the country dealt the Nixons another blow. Pronouncing formal judgment for the first time on her husband's conduct in office, an appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court disbarred the former President from legal practice in that state. In a 4-to-l opinion, the tribunal found that Nixon had: 1) obstructed justice by impeding an FBI investigation into the Watergate burglary-bugging; 2) interfered with Daniel Ellsberg's legal defense against charges arising from his publication of the Pentagon Papers; 3) attempted to obstruct...
...Caletti's debunking of the Latin lover myth. Parca characterized Italian men in her book The Sultans, published eleven years ago, as selfish, insensitive oafs. Now engaged in preparing a new edition of the book, she says that she has found nothing to warrant a change in that judgment. "It is still piratical behavior, even among the new generation of young men," she says. "Sex without commitment and without affection. That is still the prevailing attitude, and it is the reason for the schism between sex and sentiment...
...court's judgment-the most important in a long series of decisions handed down throughout last week -did not mean that all the new death-penalty laws are constitutional or that the 588 prisoners now confined on death row are all doomed.* On the contrary, the court specifically dealt with only a handful of murder cases in five states. It approved the death penalty in just three of those states: Florida, Georgia and Texas. In two others, North Carolina and Louisiana, the Justices by a five-to-four vote struck down capital-punishment laws as being too rigid...
Even as a young man, Washington was noted for his stately manner (Virginia's new Governor Patrick Henry once praised his "solid information and sound judgment"), but he sometimes showed a lighter side with ladies. A "chatty, agreeable companion," one of them wrote to a friend, "he can be downright impudent sometimes, such impudence ... as you and I like." After a certain amount of impudence among notables like the Fairfaxes, his patrons, the young war veteran settled down with the widowed Martha Custis, then 27 (two children by her first marriage, none by her second). Said Washington: "With...
...Highness General Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, 36, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Count of the Russian Empire, recipient of Prussia's Black Eagle decoration, Denmark's White Elephant and Sweden's Holy Seraphim? It apparently leaves him maneuvering to retain his power by appealing solely to the Empress's judgment rather than her emotions...