Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anger is the root of both righteousness and sin. . . . The proper attitude toward evil is anger. . . We must finally be reconciled with our foe, lest we both perish in the vicious circle of hatred.. . . We are called upon again & again to be executors of divine judgment. But in the ultimate sense [the word of St. Paul] is true: 'Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord...
...trial, but only six hours to try him and a week to find him guilty. In the century-old mansion that houses the Kiangsu High Court at Soochow, Columbia-educated Chen Kung-po, last president of the late Wang Ching-wei's Nanking puppet regime, heard the judgment of his people: traitor, death...
...blue-gowned but urbane Chen, once a revolutionary and after that Kuomintang Minister of Industry and Commerce, did not lose the polite composure that had lent an oddly gracious note to his trial. Bowing, he had told the court: "Whatever judgment your honor may pass on me, I will not appeal...
Producers.... In no field of art, in no country . . . are questions of taste and talent passed upon by persons so totally lacking in culture, so bereft of knowledge and judgment as are the producers of Hollywood. . . . They have an extraordinary nose for what the public wants. So it is that they wax rich while contributing to the intellectual impoverishment of the nation...
...author of the latest and most comprehensive-but by no means the best written or most imaginative-Dickens biography, Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, is the first biographer to make use of the mass of Nonesuch and other new material. Readers will find no trace of literary judgment, but they will find every last detail of Dickens' stormy life, from crib to coffin...