Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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historians cannot quite accept that judgment, and neither can journalists. This issue is an attempt to reconstruct, with the tools of both history and journalism, and in our distinctive newsmagazine format, at least part of the life and soul of the events that gave birth to our nation. As one of TIME'S contributions to the Bicentennial celebration, we began over a year ago to plan an issue devoted to the news in those sultry first days of July 1776, written and edited more or less as it would have been if TIME had existed in those days. Under...
John Adams observed last week: "I am surprised at the suddenness as well as the greatness of this Revolution. Britain has been filled with folly, and America with wisdom, at least this is my judgment. Time will determine ... I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these states." Thomas Jefferson, too, understands the immense stakes of the American gamble. To him, "all eyes are open, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open...
Furthermore, after the second World War, America had to assume leadership over those countries known as the free world. This position imposed upon her a sense of responsibility toward those countries and induced her to interfere in situations that demanded her intervention. In certain cases her judgment may have been erroneous, and, worse, her intervention lacking in decisiveness. The ultimate judgment we must leave to history, but I doubt whether every American is in a position to analyze and diagnose every complex situation that may arise, just as Viet Nam and Watergate were the results of faulty judgment and doubtful...
...conventional wisdom of 1976 is that the public is disillusioned by politicians who overpromise, and is more concerned with character, judgment and ability. And here, oddly enough, it is two survivors, Carter and Reagan, so different in their outlook and temperament, who share a common trait. In part because of their professional, almost impersonal skill at merchandising their personalities, they create an aura of reserve about themselves−one that reporters rarely penetrate. Against their cool responses, interrogative reporting of the Mike Wallace-Dan Rather school seems out of season, overheated and hectoring. Reporters, themselves often on camera, vie with...
...ready," Humphrey mourns. "I'd really trained for the presidency. I know government ... We could have done so much good." In this judgment there is no reason to doubt him. The education of the consummate public man was indeed very nearly complete. But one lesson remained unlearned, and it is far from clear in Humphrey's auto biography whether he has learned it even...