Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person, blacklisted for some obscure and unrevealed reason, might be misquoted, misunderstood and persecuted. But knowing well the American spirit of fair play and justice, I am satisfied that all good Americans will withhold their judgment until I have been accorded a hearing and my side of the story is permitted to be revealed...
They had to learn the tremendous, all-important value of flying judgment-from the moment of take-off until they touched down once again on the airport. They had to learn to respect the tail gunner of an enemy bomber. But until cockiness got the better of them, and they scraped close to death, they could not learn to leaven courage with caution. And that took time...
...since Michelangelo took revenge on a Vatican critic of his Last Judgment by limning the carper in the front row of the damned have prominent Roman Catholics so openly condemned an artistic project conducted under impeccable Catholic auspices...
Both the N.C.W.C. and the Liturgical Arts Society, Inc., which ran the competition, preserved a discreet silence. But indirectly they hinted that 1) the finalists will probably revise their models before submitting them again in the fall, 2) critics would do well to suspend judgment until then, 3) the subject of the statue-"Christ, the Light of the World"-is far from easy to portray in bronze...
Brainard Cheney writes with the homely hardness of a grindstone. At his best he is a master at making detail, action and physical sensation palpable, and almost Homerically fresh. At his worst he is a pedestrian writer, capable of serious lapses of literary judgment, but enormously sensitive to a certain landscape and a certain people. If he ever wrestles a subject his size with grace as well as grit, he may make literary history...