Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pilot Martin, a 26-year-old ex-Navy flyer, confessed to an almost incredible tale of carelessness and poor judgment. He had taken off from Foynes, Eire, 3,600 lbs. overloaded, with two extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they...
Since radio, in Ratner's opinion, represents "the judgment of the majority of adult Americans," it must be right. The intellectuals who object to soap opera had better go read a book and leave radio to the masses...
...painting is as violent as his finished pictures; glaring angrily about him, he splashes paint all over his clothes, gums up his great shock of greying black hair, uses his thighs as a palette. His mural in the Treasury Building represents Siqueiros' own emphatic last judgment on Mexican history, in the form of a huge baroque wheel of horses and men. Mexico's liberators and heroes are seen speeding upwards into the vault; Mexico's tyrants, traitors and collaborationists hurtle tangled toward the floor...
...consider it a bad error in judgment to feature a string of Communists on the cover of TIME...
Last week, even the Supreme Court deserted the purists. Under a local law, the Monterrey firm of Guadelupe Gonzalez S.A. had been convicted of using the French phrase Modes comme il faut in its advertising. The court not only reversed this judgment but ordered the local authorities to let the firm alone henceforth. The Spanish language, said the court, had not been harmed, and besides, the firm had printed under the French phrase the Spanish words Modes como deben...