Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should not appear to be too bright. He should not offer specific policies, for that brings him down to the level of ordinary politicians. He should cultivate the air of a slippered family man sucking his pipe by the fire, all passion spent. He should claim only the tolerant judgment of one long acquainted with human folly, thus tacitly asserting his own immunity from...
...emotions that shape the internal world in which every man lives are perhaps most tellingly portrayed in art in terms of the human body. By one's very close to it, one cannot think otherwise. "Our continuous effort to keep ourselves balanced upright on our legs affects every judgment on design. The disposition of areas in the torso is related to our most vivid experiences, so that abstract shapes, the square and the circle, seem to us male and female, and that the old endeavor of magical mathematics to square the circle is like the symbol of physical union...
...Medal of Freedom for staying on "at the risk of capture" by the invading Nazis after the rest of the diplomatic corps was evacuated to Kuibyshev. Last year Colorado-born Ambassador Thompson won a citation from Ike for his "firmness, patience, negotiating skill and good judgment" in helping negotiate both the Trieste Agreement and the treaty with the Russians that gave Austria its independence...
...proliferation of the sects," he writes in the current issue, "[is a] judgment upon us all. But accepting the judgment has never necessarily entailed embracing the instrument of judgment." Psychiana, a mail-order course in positive thinking, showed how "pathetic an expedient" it was when it collapsed completely upon Founder Frank B. Robinson's death in 1948. As for the doctrine of the ubiquitous Witnesses: "What response but horror can there be to this conversion of profound myth to lurid legend"-the bloody Armageddon which they eagerly anticipate between 1970 and 1980. The eclecticism of Unity (a self-help...
...boils down the information in a matter of hours, can tell exactly how the thousands of parts worked-or failed to work. R-W's taskmaster role does not make it universally popular with the many contractors over whom it sits in technical judgment. The arguments are long, the complaints bitter. R-W is criticized for being highhanded, for spurring contractors too hard. Another complaint is that R-W's role as technical boss gives it free access to electronic secrets of everyone in the program-secrets that may later have valuable commercial use. R-W vehemently denies...