Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imprecise, said Kaufman, the phrase became "a legal term of art" that clearly barred Boutilier as "a homosexual long before leaving Canada," and authorized his deportation even if he had lived "a life of impeccable morality" in the U.S. Ruled Kaufman: "It is not our function to sit in judgment on Congress' wisdom in enacting the law." In dissent, Judge Leonard P. Moore called "psychopathic personality" an unconstitutionally vague term that immigration officials blindly applied to Boutilier without even giving him a medical examination...
...cornball." With all that, "more than most men, his performance must be looked at in the main." What comes through almost reluctantly in this often critical book is that in the foreign policy areas that really count, L.B.J. has in the main acted with courage and good judgment...
...which hangs in his office. The first panel is an idyllic study of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The centerpiece shows an orgiastic wrangle of naked men and women. The third panel is a wildly surrealistic version of Hell in which a lizardlike demon sits in judgment, defecating doomed sinners into a hole in the ground...
...vital stake" in Asia. Goodwin has doubts about a genuine American interest in defending any country in the area except India-it is "inconceivable" not to use "the full force of American power" to protect India against aggression. But there is a general "almost idealistic" American "judgment," he concedes, that favors helping other Asian lands against conquest by "a hostile power." He has no use for the "Chinese sphere of influence" concession advanced by some dovish intellectuals. On the other hand, "we are not compelled to fight for every inch of Asian soil or hazard war each time Chinese influence...
...Catholic priests during World War II in Yugoslavia. Casaroli readily admits that the phrase is offensive, but replies that without it the Tito regime would not have recognized the Vatican's jurisdiction over the Yugoslav Catholics in spiritual matters. Casaroli's critics also point out that his judgment is not infallible. Long after it was evident that the Polish government would not let Pope Paul enter the country for the ceremonies marking the 1,000th anniversary of its conversion to Christianity, Casaroli kept insisting that the trip could still be arranged...