Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baseball umpires, unlike tragic heroes and lesser mortals, are presumed to be incapable of errors in judgment. Last week the presumption was put to a severe test...
Present, as at a Kaffeeklatsch in the good old days, were Frau Field Marshal Göring, Frau Deputy Führer Hess, Frau Reichsminister Funk, Frau Governor General Frank, Frau Youth Leader von Schirach.* These wives and widows of Germany's war criminals awaited their own judgment day in a camp near Augsburg. Bavaria's Denazification Ministry was about to try them as "profiteers...
...uneducated Common Man, of the perpetually adolescent Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. For this he is not to blame. [Our arts] are controlled by profit-hungry manipulators of a populace which has not by education been assisted to arrive at judgment about beauty. Those who have to do with educational policy-making . . . must rescue the Common Man. Otherwise ... the Century of the Common Man will end in a worse enslavement . . . enslavement to a standardized vulgarity sold as the good life by a group of rascals bent on their own enrichment...
...group; thus far, the highest elective office held by any...is that of Assemblyman. It contains...no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president. It gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys...." Psychologist Terman thinks the 1,400 entitled to another 25 years before making final judgment on them. But he has already come to one conclusion:"In achieving eminence, much depends on chance...
...contrary, he sees them as men who spent most of their lives and will power struggling to discipline passionate "animal" qualities. Out of this unresolved but "lofty encounter of nature and spirit" came the synthesis most admired by Mann-a harmonious and exalted mixture of primitive ardor and civilized judgment...