Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every corner of the world would be affected by the Labor Party's success or failure. All men, therefore, had a right to sit in judgment on the Labor Party; but the clearest right and the highest competence to judge was that of the wise, patient and perceptive British electorate, which had placed its lives and its liberties in Labor's hands...
...Nevertheless, dawning anger at their plight came like thunder out of China last week. Over 200 local UNRRA officials sent a cable to their boss in Washington: "We have come from many places in the world [to make] UNRRA's goal a reality [but] it is our considered judgment that UNRRA supplies and services are being improperly handled...
There is sufficient evidence to convince most undergraduates that the Dean's refusal was not merely malicious nor an act of narrow censorship. There did appear a lack of judgment and sympathy with the legitimate operation of a student activity. Unless the Faculty committee concerned defines its position more clearly and makes provision for the wise use of its powers at all times, it may find that the fair name of Harvard entrusted to it has been needlessly splotched...
Houston Peterson, head of Manhattan's Cooper Union forum and onetime Rutgers philosophy professor, served up this judgment in a unique anthology: Great Teachers, Portrayed by Those Who Studied under Them (Rutgers University Press, $3.50). Its 22 essays ranged from a profile of Anne Mansfield Sullivan by her only pupil, Helen Keller, to impressions of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Russell Lowell...
...from becoming an insurmountable problem, complicated as it was by the investigations of five congressional committees. In the face of this, Washington politicos were most impressed by Littlejohn's courage in taking on the thankless job. Quipped one: "I admire his guts, but not his judgment...