Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average week, our queries evoke a response of more than 700,000 words. The writers and editors in New York select the best and freshest of this material-much of which first sees print in TIME-combining it with their own information and judgment to tell the story of the world's week...
...that began as Epstein's master's thesis in government at Cornell University; it accuses the commission, of hurrying through the investigation in slipshod fashion, because it wanted to establish a "version of the truth" that would "reassure the nation and protect the national interest." Rush to Judgment, now a bestseller, is by New York Attorney Mark Lane, who was retained as counsel for a time by Oswald's mother. Lane's book consists of a minutely detailed recital of what he might have done as adversary for the defense if Oswald had gone on trial...
Suitable Deluge. Sobeloff's decision apparently struck a nerve. Last week Virginia's Attorney General Robert Y. Button asked for a rehearing before the full bench on the ground that the case is "of major importance." The court, said Button, has "now substituted its judgment for that of experienced penal administrators." Button cited testimony by Cunningham, who is now director of the Division of Corrections, that "if a Catholic boy came to me, or a Protestant boy came to me, saying he represented a certain group of prisoners and refused to give me their names, he would...
...grant to a university for further UFO studies. But until UFOs decide to show up, stay, and give some account of themselves, the majority of mankind, who, like Hamlet, think that they can tell a hawk from a handsaw when the wind is right, can be pardoned for withholding judgment...
Whether Bennett himself was a good or bad writer was a judgment that his sometimes awed, often contemptuous contemporaries were never able to make. Partly it was because his physical presence was so overwhelming. He was a strutting cockatoo of a man, resplendently tailored, grey hair swept up into a crest, wit as sharp as a honed spur, manner as crude as a clod. Fascinated by the combination of the baroque and the bumptious of the man, Rebecca West once wondered if it would not be better to judge Bennett as a character rather than an author. "He could...