Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspaper for any past grudges. "I was trained by the Times and when I left the paper I cried." He devoted nearly three years to the book not to even any scores but because "I consider the New York Times news. Fascinating news. It has been sitting in judgment of America for more than a century and it, too, should be looked at in detail with the same objectivity...
...fighter became the fated protagonist in two of the most controversial fights in ring history. The result was that for nearly half a century he was dismissed by the great majority of fight fans as the Great White Hoax. It was an unfair judgment, and before he died last week at 86, Willard was belatedly recognized as one of boxing's most underrated heavyweights...
...sounds. Kazantzakis' 33,333-line poem, also called The Odyssey, is a 20th century epic in which a contemporary Ulysses savors the world's sunny delights while heading inexorably for a polar night of the spirit. In the letters, however, Kazantzakis settles for a shrewder, certainly earthier judgment of himself. "I am not a Romantic in revolt," he wrote, "nor a mystic scorning life, nor an insolent belligerent against Substance. I do not feel possessed by any illusion. I enter into all traps-like some extremely elastic rat, which enters the trap, eats the mixture set to catch...
...fulfillment, Barth proclaimed the objective authority of Scripture. The Bible, he wrote, was not man's word about God, but God's word about man. Barth's thinking, which came to be known as "crisis theology" or "neo-orthodoxy," stressed a God who stood in constant judgment against idolatrous counterfeiters of faith who sought to create him in their own image...
...insurance adjuster in Norfolk, Va., was fired by his company because he allegedly referred claimants to certain attorneys. The insurance company informed the local credit bureau of his dismissal, whereupon the adjuster sued for slander and collected a $1,000 judgment. Because he sued, even though he won, he has since been classified as a "dangerous" credit risk, on the ground that he is "litigious." He has been unable to find employment, except as a $2-an-hour security guard...