Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your April 27 article on Mr. Herter was a genuine tribute, as well it should be. My hope is that Mr. Herter's appointment reflects the U.S.'s maturing judgment in the type of individuals it selects to conduct and carry out governmental affairs. It will be to our credit to have more appointees with some of Mr. Herter's attributes such as "undeviating interest in the arts" and "unflagging courtesy and willingness to listen...
...frightening thing about the censorship of the Playhouse 90 drama, Judgment at Nuremberg, by the eliminating of reference to extermination in "gas oven" [April 27], lies not so much in the censorship as in the awful realization that the person or persons responsible for this idiocy can be and are employed in policymaking positions in a major American industry, and can and do make decisions of this kind...
...Steiner's contempt for respectable America, the land of the free and the bourgeoisie, certainly implies a moral judgment that leads us to ask why Steiner is justified in rejecting those social regulations which transform the chaotic into the orderly, or in condemning those who seem to be more principled and responsible than himself. No matter how often we ask, however, Zane leaves us in a moral haziness, which leads us in turn to suspect that he doesn't know how to solve the moral dilemma he has generated. Perhaps this is because he has known too well these strange...
...conspicuous example of one who has used personal invention to the most effective degree, witness a Guernica or a Weeping Woman. On the other hand, fatalities exist too. The ingenuities of the twenties no longer spread as far as they once did. The first days of true retrospective judgment on that era are just commencing...
...newspapers generally agreed that in view of Morse's attacks, Clare Boothe Luce had done the best thing for her country. "In offering her resignation," said the New York Times, "Mrs. Luce has shown a greater degree of good judgment and personal responsibility than was displayed by her chief antagonist in this controversy. The tactics pursued by Senator Morse of Oregon in this whole affair seem to us to have been beneath contempt...