Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nice old-fashioned word connoting scholarly inquiry with judgment...
...criticism upon his conduct of that war. Said Paulus: "I am not one of those who think that commanders ought at no time to receive advice; on the contrary, 1 should deem that man more proud than wise who regulated every proceeding by the standard of his own single judgment...
...vote of 8 to 0, the Supreme Court last week upheld both Lamont and Heilberg. "We rest on the narrow ground that the addressee in order to receive his mail must request in writing that it be delivered," said Justice William O. Douglas. "This amounts in our judgment to an unconstitutional abridgment of the addressee's First Amendment rights." In short, he may be embarrassed or harassed, just because he likes to read things that upset other people. The deficit-ridden Post Office is hardly dismayed. By quitting the censorship business, it can now save $250,-000 a year...
Lyndon was no angelic student. He was once thrashed for stamping on a board to splash muddy water on girls at the outdoor fountain. He got into a fistfight when a boy broke up his marble game, found solace in his teacher's judgment that he had a right...
...political commentators. Reading him, one cannot help feeling he has achieved the optimum mix of compassion and realism. The Great Debate is an example of neutral analysis in the service of compassion. Aron analyzes the nuclear apocalypse before which much of Harvard shudders as millenial Christians before the imminent Judgment, and he deals with it in a calm, utterly convincing...