Word: judgments
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Every parent should know that his child judges him; but he should also know that the judgment is that of a child. The U.S. has alternated between taking the judgment of its children not seriously enough-and too seriously. What is regarded as today's youthful nihilism is undoubtedly much less alarming than it seems. Whatever political causes the apolitical American young managed to find before have virtually disappeared-hence the concentration on the few remaining ones, such as civil rights and Viet Nam. Among the young bored by prosperity and consensus government, some observers discern a special group...
...months, Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell has taxed more than 70 judges with his legal evasions of a $46,500 defamation judgment won by Mrs. Esther James, a widow whom Powell slandered on TV as a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. Last week acting New York State Supreme Court Justice Maurice Wahl rewarded Powell's "monstrous defiance of the law" by awarding Mrs. James the whopping...
...year ago, Mrs. James charged that Powell evaded attachment for the judgment by fraudulently transferring title to his $50,000 house in Puerto Rico to his wife's aunt and uncle. Twice, Powell ignored fact-finding trials. Last week, forced to assume that the charge was true, Justice Wahl ordered Powell to pay Mrs. James $75,000 in compensatory and $500,000 in punitive damages. Summing up his opinion of Powell, Justice Wahl indignantly paraphrased a famous insult attributed to Virginia's 19th century Senator John Randolph: "He is a man of splendid abilities, but he shines...
Albania & Albinos. Not that Schlesinger minds. As the heir to a proud historical tradition, he was encouraged from his earliest days to hold the mirror up to everything, past and present, and to declare his judgment of what he saw. His judgments were loud and clear and precociously decisive. Says a friend: "Arthur has always had to contend with an enormous coalition of the envious and the aggrieved-those who are jealous of his talents and those who have suffered from them...
...Pigs, he never voiced his doubts, fearful that he might be branded "a nuisance." "It is one thing for a Special Assistant to talk frankly in private to a President," explains Schlesinger, "and another for a college professor, fresh to the Government, to interpose his unassisted judgment in open meeting against that of such august figures as the Secretaries of State and Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff." At this point, the historian shades imperceptibly into the apologist, as Schlesinger writes: "The advocates of the adventure had a rhetorical ad vantage. They could strike virile poses and talk...