Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Keats [Schools Without Scholars -April 14] makes many pungent comments on education with which I agree, but I deplore his dismissing school boards as "frequently too secretive" and suggesting "citizens' grand juries." Such groups can be pernicious, since they pass judgment without carrying any responsibility. Also, having no authority, they tend to aimlessness...
...high point came when Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington asked Teller whether perhaps, in his eagerness to make new weapons, he might have got his judgment on disarmament distorted. This was a fair way of giving Teller a chance to answer in public the charges that some scientists make in private that he has lost all sense of proportion. The crowded committee room was silent. Teller began to reply: "I chose the profession of a scientist," he said, "and I am in love with science; and I would not do willingly or eagerly anything else but pure science...
...boxing's Mr. Big, James D. Norris, resigned his longtime job as president of the International Boxing Club. But he hung on to his job as president of the Madison Square Garden Corp., which owns every share of I.B.C. stock, thus remained the chief target of an antitrust judgment awaiting Supreme Court review and a grand-jury investigation of I.B.C. matchmaking. His successor at I.B.C.: Truman Gibson Jr., a Chicago Negro lawyer who represented ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis...
...much more than that. They have a keen artistic sense, will not agree to finance a movie and distribute it unless the "package'' is right; i.e., the script, stars, producer and director all fit together. They read 50 to 60 scripts a week, back their artistic judgment with two of the shrewdest business brains in moviemaking...
...decades later, stoutly defends his chief against what he believes was European cynicism, a failure of generosity and political imagination. Even now he tends to find saintliness where others might have seen ingenuousness. His book is at once the profoundly loyal tribute of an admiring subordinate and a compassionate judgment of one U.S. President by the most harshly judged U.S. President of modern times...