Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Charles Morton depends on his stomach for his judgment, then it is through the stomach that we would like to take issue...
Instead of ripping into Harry Truman for I'affaire Vinson, Tom Dewey decided to let the President's action speak for itself. It was good judgment and good politics. He would gain both votes and stature by refusing to follow Truman's lead in playing politics with the nation's foreign policy...
...regards Dr. Perl's [being] "sentimental and well-meaning," and Dr. Deutschman's condemnation of her "wholesale slaughter of infants," I cannot but wonder about Dr. Deutschman's pretentiousness in passing judgment on the doctor's morals . . . Presumably, it would have been a happier choice to put the mothers to death before the children were born, [or] should the camp authorities consent to exceptions ... to raise children with the prospects of starvation, medical experimentation, permanent physical and mental mutilation...
...were too dead to attend. As for his children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn tennis...
Robert Cant well's portrayal of Hawthorne is superior to James's in warmth and scope; it is free of James's overtones of worldly condescension; and whatever it may lack of James's awesome artistic judgment it makes up for in freshness, and in the imaginative grasp of a real man's life and character. After Cantwell's work, the image that Americans have had of Hawthorne will never be quite the same again...