Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizenship only 33 years ago) have been encouraged by the Federal Government in recent years to quit the "rural slums" of the reservations. Says Rowan: "Most of the younger generation sees that the arrow is broken, the tribe is dead." But, poorly educated, lacking technical skills and elementary economic judgment, they enter the white man's world with "handicaps that burden no other group of Americans...
...third speaker, Louis Osborn, professor of Physics at M.I.T., emphasized the problem of technical judgment versus moral judgment. He said that much of the difficulty lay in the difference between percentages and total numbers. Many of the problems arising with regards to the desirability of atom tests lie within the realm of human values--whether one should regard 100 mutated babies as 100 tragedies or as merely a total misfortune of one-forty-thousandth of the total babies born each year...
...difficulties was that the job of defusing had to be done with a crowd looking on. President Eisenhower had pledged to work within the framework of the United Nations. Yet the U.N., while sitting in judgment on the Middle East, was itself also being judged. The whole Middle East crisis began over British, French and Israeli disbelief in the U.N. as an effective instrument of peace and justice. When Britain and France later had to promise the U.N. to withdraw their invading armies from Egypt, that necessity only increased the anger of what used...
...schools, none have attracted more attention-or produced more controversy-than the nation's capital. Last December a House subcommittee headed by Georgia's James Davis declared that integration had "seriously damaged-the public-school system," and recommended that it be stopped. Last week a more reasonable judgment came from Washington's Assistant School Superintendent Carl F. Hansen. Integration, says he in a study published by B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, has been nothing less than a "miracle of social adjustment...
Lost Eden. McCool becomes a kind of Iago subverting Duncan's better judgment. When Chief is killed by the neighbor who had enjoyed Duncan's wife, it is McCool who offers to lure the man within Duncan's shooting range. After that, the book moves to its bloody close with the implacable fury of a hill-country feud...