Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pronouncing sentence, Judge Benjamin Halevi said: "There are important considerations for not imposing the severest sentence [life imprisonment], the main consideration being that none of the eight men found guilty initiated the order, but all acted as instruments in transmitting and implementing it." But the judgment added, it is Israeli criminal law, inherited from the British, that an Israeli soldier must disregard an order to commit a "manifestly unlawful" act-one so monstrous that "it blinded the eyes and stabbed at the heart" of the "average" person...
...peppery independent, Rowse said he enjoyed Lord Russell's "naughtiness, but for his judgment of political matters, I have no regard." Now the advocate of British disarmament at any price, Russell not long ago was arguing learnedly for a preventive war against Russia. Years before, he was fiercely opposed to Britain's defending itself against the Kaiser's Germany. Groused Rowse: "You need to be very clever to be so silly as that...
Beck accused Harvard's voting delegates of "lack of preparation and of good judgment" at the annual National Student Congress in the past few years. He also claimed that the Council has "misrepresented" several functions and services of the NSA, as well as the costs of membership. He thus criticized the stand taken by Andrew Warshaw '59, who felt that the resolutions of the congress were handled with a "slapdash method...
...cease-fire in the area which seemed to be reasonably dependable, I think it would be foolish to keep these large forces on these islands. We thought it was rather foolish to put them there, and, as I say, if there were a ceasefire, it would be our judgment, military judgment, even, that it would not be wise or prudent to keep them there." Was there, then, a possibility of important changes in U.S. policy if there was some "give" on the Communist side? Answered Dulles: "Yes, I would...
...prepared to prove his point. He asked experts to pick the "Twelve Best Buildings in the Old Dominion since 1776." Then he sent pictures of these buildings and the Reynolds building to 13 top architectural deans, critics and architects for comment. Only one quarreled with his judgment that Reynolds was "the best since Jefferson." Thundered Frank Lloyd Wright, who concedes excellence to few other men: "If anything less Virginian could be imagined...