Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This judgment by Benjamin H. Kizer, of the University of Washington's political science department, is the keynote of much of the mail we have received as a result of TIME'S March 17th cover story on Britain's Philosopher-Historian Arnold J. Toynbee and his monumental work on the rise & fall of civilizations...
...governors of seven states have been heard from, as have businessmen, Congressmen, plain citizens, radio broadcasters, journalists (Wrote Edgar Ansel Mowrer. New York Post columnist and foreign affairs expert: "Never before, in my judgment, has any American magazine printed anything quite as important . . .")-In particular, the clergy has been strongly represented-the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, for example, having requested 1,700 reprints for distribution to Armed Forces chaplains everywhere...
...tactician (once the game has started), Durocher is unsurpassed; as a yearlong strategist, says Rickey, "he ain't." Durocher has an instinct for knowing just what his players can do in any situation. He yanks pitchers quicker than any other manager, and the results usually bear out his judgment. Pete Reiser stole home so often on Durocher's orders (seven times in 1946) that rival pitchers got the jitters every time he reached third base. Brooklyn scored more runs last season on squeeze bunts than any other club. Says Leo: "I play hunches . . . maybe other managers are afraid...
...However, judgment should be withheld until time has given the management opportunity to prove its good faith. If it does carry out the highest meaning of the spirit of the agreement, the management of the Club 100 merits commendation for its change of policy, even though the change was the result of pressure whose necessity was deplored even by those who supported it most strongly...
Adolphe Menjou, the veteran Hollywood fashion plate, was writing his memoirs. While he was thinking things over, he let go a considered judgment: "Not only are movies worse than they used to be; one might even say that now they are no good...