Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above them are the representatives of the four occupying powers. Perhaps the suggestion of both classroom and courtroom is apt. For here, Berlin's people are expected to learn the ways of democracy, and here the Big Four of World War II are supposed to sit in solemn judgment on their efforts. But, this week, it was difficult to tell who was judge, who the accused...
...them, the hopeful applicant must bear the same name as the donor or one of his parents or even ancestors dating back as far as 1650. The William Stanislaus Murphy Fund, for instance is, "For the collegiate education of any young man or men named Murphy, who in the judgment of the Faculty, should prove deserving of this kind of encouragement...
...belongs to the 19th Century; that he is shortsighted in world affairs; that he is stubborn, cold, impatient of opposition; that he is tactless ("It is dishonest to be tactful," he says); that he lacks the kind of wisdom which comes from human understanding; that basically he distrusts the judgment of the people...
...death in 1927, he had assembled the finest collection of 18th Century British portraits in the U.S. (among them: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy). And his purchases of 100,000 rare books and 1,000,000 precious manuscripts made him, in Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach's judgment, "without doubt the greatest collector of books the world has ever known." In the judgment of Englishmen who hated to see their treasures taken off, he was one of history's colossal despoilers...
...then answered: 'Yes, but not all. We have to be sure that he is of the kind that will fit in with our plans. . . .' This is a significant utterance. It is 'our plans.' The Chinese are to work out the plan; it is their judgment . . . that is to determine the situation. . . . Within that situation, the foreigner is welcome...