Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing is a sport and a business built largely on an unstable compound of chance and judgment: 1) the monetary chance-plus-judgment of race-betting, which last year drew some $2,064,572.984 across parimutuel counters, and 2) Mendelian chance-plus-judgment, which governs the horsemen's old and insatiable yearning to breed a horse with more speed and more stamina than the last one. Out of the mating of these two lines come numberless thrills, frequent beauties, many sorrows and not a few ills of commercial horse racing. Racing lives in constant worry of the anti-betting moralizers...
...widely regarded as the lowest form of humor. This judgment may or may not have been circulated by people who themselves can never think of a pun until they are driving home after the party. The fact is that punsters have gone underground-at least as far as polite literature is concerned. Among the U.S. writers, there must be a vast reservoir of pent-up puns, just waiting for the signal to burst out into the open. That heady day may be at hand...
...days gone by, Catholic doctrine was condemned as being unBiblical or superstitious: the judgment was theological. Today, it is more often branded as 'undemocratic' or 'un-American.' This, it seems to me, is a telltale sign of the growing totalitarianization of 'democracy.' American democracy is traditionally a tolerant political way of life. Many would now like to make it a set of secularist dogmas by which all things, even the moral order and religious beliefs, are measured. The professional birth-controllers, the divorce apologists (perhaps, soon, the euthanasiasts) and the aggressive secularists generally more...
...Catholicism today "at its highest point of prestige and spiritual power." But Herberg regrets "a tendency in Catholicism to smile indulgently upon men and pat them on the back, as it were. Catholicism thus comes forward as the friend of man, whereas Protestantism, with its unrelenting emphasis on judgment, sometimes appears as his enemy." Catholics' "spiritual geniality," writes Herberg, often combines with secularism to betray "Catholics into too easy an acquiescence in the banalities, timidities and mediocrities of everyday life-provided they do not violate the conventional decencies...
Representing philosophy as an approach to reality, Charles L. Stevenson, visiting professor of Philosophy, attacked the Cartesian method of suspended judgment...