Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend to Democrats as well as Republicans. For his pains the Chicago Tribune called him a "crypto-New Dealer," warned that his economic and social philosophy is "far closer to 'liberal' Democratic than to traditionally Republican doctrine." Less harsh, yet frankly skeptical, was the judgment of Cook County Republican Chairman Francis X. Connell: "I don't think he's changed anybody's mind on the question of the nominee for President." While he found Governor Rockefeller "completely disarming," said Connell, the organization is behind Nixon...
...with hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer. In its own bureaucratic language, it also spoke about pride and arrogance of judgment: "The record shows that Dr. Oppenheimer has consistently placed himself outside the rules which govern others...
...take a stand on principle against the inevitable. (There are still other students who feel that they should be free to accept loan money under the Act without interference from professors whose scruples stand in the way; this is not an easy issue to resolve, but in my judgment, Harvard would be remiss in its specific educational function to all its students if its actions as well as its curriculum didn't speak for freedom--and of course students who think otherwise needn't come to Harvard, and are free to go elsewhere to colleges that interpret their responsibilities...
...Taste & Judgment. In Venice Observed, Author McCarthy dealt with a flashier subject, and it was the more fascinating book, but Florence supplies a lack that most visitors feel: it is an exercise in taste and judgment...
...They marry, but he is too busy merchandising his wife's soul to give husbandly attention to her body; as their marriage nears its third or fourth anniversary, it remains unconsummated. "There were times," muses Fonda's personal pressagent (Myron McCormick), "when the great man showed less judgment than any man in the history of the theater, with the possible exception of John Wilkes Booth...