Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less-than-overwhelming crowds at the Nuzi exhibit are any gauge (visitors are pretty much guaranteed to have the place to themselves), History will not only fail to pass judgment, but History is probably not going to care. What we leave behind, it turns out, are non-biodegradable objects, a few random legal contracts, a few pieces of jewelry and a whole lot of garbage...
...Washington, pundits from every part of the political spectrum have differed in their opinions of how or whether President Clinton should be punished for his actions. Despite these differences, all of them have displayed a strangely unshakable faith in one single thing: ultimately, they intone, History will pass judgment...
...Make no mistake about it," Rodino said in 1974. "This is a turning point, whatever we decide. Our judgment is not concerned with an individual but with a system of constitutional government...
Today, too, our judgment of Clinton must deal not only with him as a man but with the link between the presidency and the people. I don't want the President to stay, as Clinton likes to say, to "do the job we elected him to do." I don't believe he is capable of doing that job any longer. I want him to stay because I helped elect him to do that job, and no other power, in the absence of necessity, should freely choose to invalidate my vote. The people's hold on power is too tenuous...
...twentieth century was the judge of that debate, clearly it has rendered its judgment in favor of Croly. Or has it? Why, then, at the end of the century, is there such an incessantly growing literature on "the end of the age of the nation-state"? Why would Nelson Mandela pay tribute to Harvard, not as an American institution, but as one which "sees the world as its stage"? Why would he refer to himself more often as an African than as a South African? And why (on an infinitely more humble scale) would someone who had every opportunity...