Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea a year later. The division found itself in a new, essentially defensive role. In 429 combat days, the 45th spent most of its time in counterattacks and blackface night patrols, but it saw plenty of action, too-at Baldy, the Punchbowl, and at Heartbreak Ridge. In the battlefield judgment of James Van Fleet, the 45th, "as far as combat effectiveness is concerned, is perhaps as good as any division we have...
...British royal commission investigating the struggle between Arab and Israeli 17 years ago arrived at a tragic conclusion. "Fundamentally," said the Peel Report of 1937, "it is a conflict of right with right." Last week-one world war and one local war later-the judgment was still valid. The Jews were right, because 4,000 years ago the narrow strip of Palestine, where 1,670,000 today carve out their earthly Zion, became the cradle of their culture and religion. The Arabs were right, because for more than 1,000 years the land had been theirs...
...time and waiting his chance to seize leadership from Atlee and the Labor moderates. But some of his closest friends admitted last week that Nye had let his emotions on the Indo-China issue and the importuning of some of his hotheaded followers get the better of his judgment. Attlee's prestige was higher than it had been in months from his responsible handling of the recent H-bomb debate, in which Churchill's attempt to score partisan points against Attlee (TIME, April 12) proved to be a bad misreading of the House's mood...
...American Authors Carson McCullers, Paul Gallico and Truman Capote. For U.S. distribution, Selznick cut the picture by nearly a third (90 to 64 minutes). He took out a lot of local sidelights, e.g., a boisterous Italian wedding party and some realistic lovemaking. Says Director De Sica: "I cannot pass judgment . . . Perhaps Selznick cut a little too much. But one kiss more or less shouldn't make such a difference...
...will it happen-and when? The Judaism of the Old Testament contains three different concepts of the world's end: 1) God's destruction of the universe, 2) God's destruction of the universe, preserving some or all men for later judgment, 3) God's ending of the earthly order of things in history and the establishment of His kingdom on earth...