Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their judgment isn't worth...
...movie on the grounds of a bad musical score. The scenery and acting exist to provide a convincing background for the singing, and the more effective it is the more effective the opera, but the quality of the music should be by far the most important standard of judgment. Shakespeare had to paint his scenery in words, and Wagner's eloquent orchestra does much more towards suggesting the barbaric atmosphere of his Nibelung saga than all the fancy dragons, thunderstorms, etc., that the "Met" can produce...
...British people in general were not experts on India. They could not judge the Indian issues either from first-hand experience or deep scholarship. They did not judge the issues from the standpoint of vested interests in India. But the British Government could ill afford to ignore their massed judgment, inexpert and instinctive as it might be. And, whatever the experts and officials and vested interests were saying last week, the British people were calling for Indian self-government, calling for it in such words as these: "We treat them like dirt and then expect them to fight...
...effectively carried out only by international authority." Individual nations, it declared, must give up their armed forces "except for preservation of domestic order" and allow the world to be policed by an international army & navy. This League-of-Nations-with-teeth would also have "the power of final judgment in controversies between nations . . the regulation of international trade and population movements among nations...
...straight. Fortnight ago OFF Chief MacLeish had talked of "the strategy of terror" of the Axis Governments, had contrasted it with his own belief in a "strategy of truth." This was a heartening note. Citizens who could imagine what he was up against were inclined to reserve judgment; to hope that MacLeish's OFF would be able to give them not puzzling facts and figures but the enlightening truth itself...