Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City regional meeting for the White House Conference on Education recommended that our schools 'help develop the art of dissent.' What is commendable in dissent as such? Gerald K. Smith and William Z. Foster are both dissenters. What we require is neither assent nor dissent but independent judgment. It is just as idiotic to make a fetish of dissent as of assent." Hook's summing-up: "The task of education is not to produce conformists or nonconformists but intelligent men and women who will see through slogans and who will take responsible positions on current problems...
...where his late father used to preach. Says Baldwin: "Religion operates here as a complete and exquisite fantasy revenge: white people own the earth and commit all manner of abomination and injustice on it; the bad will be punished and the good rewarded, for God is not sleeping, the judgment is not far off ... Bitterness is here neither dead nor sleeping . . . and this is not, as Cabin in the Sky would have us believe, merely a childlike emotional release...
...Stouf (184 pp.; Viking; $2.75), plunges Nero Wolfe, with his creator's usual sharp eye for the headlines, into the hypertense world of Manhattan advertising agencies and a $1,000,000 quiz contest sponsored by a perfume manufacturer. The murderer shows the bad taste and worse judgment to strike in Wolfe's own home. Not really baffling as a whodunit, but Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's legman, is reliably agreeable company as the yarn-spinner...
Last week Benny DeVoto came to Manhattan to appear on TV. He got through the program, was chatting with friends afterwards when a fatal heart attack struck him at 58. He had been a man whose judgment was sometimes off balance, but whose rampages helped keep a generation on its toes. His proudest boast appeared in his last collection of Easy Chair articles published a few weeks ago: "No one has got me to say anything I did not want to say and no one has prevented me from saying anything I wanted...
...Spencer remembers vividly when "she knelt right down in the street at the time there was a thing called Halley's comet." On the day of the Resurrection, Spencer paints the whole Cookham churchyard opening up as the dead come forth. In one version Spencer portrays himself on judgment morn, leaning against a tombstone, his work apparently done...