Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names: Joseph R. McCarthy and J. Robert Oppenheimer. In most respects they are poles apart; hardly anyone admires both. Yet last week's news about them called attention to a characteristic that Oppenheimer and McCarthy have in common: the tendency of each man to put his own judgment above...
...three citizens who sat in judgment behind a big, horseshoe-shaped table, it symbolized one of history's most thankless tasks: to decide between a demonstrably great and compelling public figure and an impersonal something called the security of the U.S. One of the three, Ward V. Evans, 71, was a professor emeritus of chemistry at Loyola University of Chicago; a second, Thomas Morgan, 66, was a successful retired man of business; the third was a former Secretary of the Army, and a substantial pillar of liberal education in his own right, President Gordon Gray, 45, of the University...
...called McCarthy's position "dangerous and doubtful." New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith went further. "Beyond belief" was Smith's label for McCarthy's contention that all federal employees had a duty to report to him any information that, in the employee's judgment, indicated illegality or impropriety in the Executive Branch. Smith also attacked McCarthy's refusal to give his committee's information to McClellan. "Every member of that committee," said Smith, "is entitled to all... information that the chairman is entitled to receive...
...Queen was also an avid museumgoer, never missed an important show at the Victoria & Albert. She had strong ideas on how objects should be arranged and displayed, sometimes disputed the judgment of the museum director...
...come back and visit them every week. There must be a communion." Explains Linkletter, who developed the People Are Funny show with Guedel: "We don't just get the people up there to make fools of them. We play on their emotions and try out their judgment. Gradually, through the years, we've concentrated on people's character traits rather than just socking the audience with punishment." Guedel, who claims to have thought up participation programs back in 1938 when he ran across a book on games, is always bursting with new program angles...