Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Healthy Trend. Sanford considers the stress on love a healthy trend, not basically different from "the ancient Christian idea." In modern terms, he suggests, the emerging ethic could well rest upon whether sexual activity develops or inhibits the individual personality-and that judgment must always take into consideration the generally accepted social attitudes toward sex. College girls, concludes Sanford, are increasingly conscious of this "and do not have as much difficulty in restraining themselves as is generally believed...
...Rage." This final installment opens on that act of defiance and closes with victory in World War II. As Churchill's Foreign Secretary and acknowledged heir, he had the power to dispute the Prime Minister's judgment, and frequently did. As early as 1942 he foresaw the postwar threat of Russia and at summit councils vigorously opposed the inclination of Churchill and Roosevelt to give Stalin just about anything he demanded. The Reckoning could have rested securely on those wartime achievements. But the memoirist could not resist shrouding them with the dark afterthoughts that beset the involuntary...
Without a war to fight, his prodigious energies ran wild. He once delivered a speech that lasted six days. He stayed up all night, every night, carousing with his cronies. He adopted orphan girls and used them as nymphets. His memory began to fail, his judgment began to go. In 1937 he came down with cirrhosis of the liver, and in 1938 he died. The republic survived, and in it Atatürk's achievement, raddled at times by reaction, still stands: a moderately modern and reasonably democratic Turkey that through two world struggles has held staunchly with...
...states and counties of certain powers vested in them without a judicial trial." No, said Katzenbach. Even though a state or political subdivision falls under the 50% formula, if it alleges that it has not discriminated and the Federal Government can present no evidence of discrimination, then, "Boom! Summary judgment for the state. That's all there...
...represents "an advance in man's thinking processes as radical as the invention of writing." Yet the computer is neither the symbol of the millennium nor a flawless rival of the human brain. For all its fantastic memory and superhuman mathematical ability, it is incapable of exercising independent judgment, has no sense of creativity and no imagination...