Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labeled "prisoner of love." In 1949 she met Roy Fergerson; he was already married, but they moved in together anyway. Mrs. Theresa Fergerson won a divorce on grounds of cruelty without naming Alma as corespondent, then sued her for alienation of affections* and last year won a $25,000 judgment. "We haven't got $25,000," said Fergerson, a trucking supervisor, who had married Alma by then. But the first Mrs. Fergerson had other means open to exact payment for her lost love...
Excitement in the Air. French critics went along with the gallerygoers, found much to praise in U.S. architecture and movies and plenty to pan in painting and sculpture. L'Aurore made a common judgment: "American painting, while trying to acquire a character of its own, nevertheless still reflects the convulsions, detours, experiments and revolutions of European...
...leaves several unanswered questions. In January, after all, Dulles called Corsi "the best qualified man in the United States" to lift the administration's refugee program out of the doldrums that have gripped it for its first two years. The American public can only hope that the Secretary's judgment has improved in those three months, for he may soon be called upon to make even more important decisions. The Corsi controversy recalls the Republican campaign in 1952, when President Eisenhower urged the revision of the McCarran-Walter Act. Surely the entire Republican Party has not suffered a collective attack...
...West. Although that policy failed to halt German rearmament, he said, "Let us not for a moment doubt that [the U.S.S.R.] will continue her efforts through other means. Let us not be disturbed by it. Let none of us suffer an inferiority complex because of it. Errors of judgment, mistakes in strategy and tactics are not prerogatives only of the Western powers. If the latter remain resolute and united, they can look forward to the future with confidence . . . To put it bluntly, our very survival is at stake, and the nations of Western Europe know...
Milliet's most biting judgment: "He painted like a staff officer . . . He painted top lavishly and paid no attention to details . . . And his color . . . Extreme, abnormal, inadmissible. Sonic tones were too warm, too violent, not tame enough. You see, the artist should paint with love, not with passion. A canvas should be 'caressed'; Van Gogh would rape it . . . At times he was a real brute, a tough...