Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major universities, the U.S. still has more than 120 colleges that have a predominantly Negro student population. How good are they? In the current issue of the Harvard Educational Review, Sociologist David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, a contributing editor of the New Republic, deliver a soberly scathing judgment. The Negro colleges, they argue, constitute an "academic disaster area...
...things published in Paris, grew into a legend, even for people who never read it, when its U.S. publication was sanctioned in 1933 by Judge John M. Woolsey's celebrated decision: "Whilst in many places the effect is emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac." The judgment has become the consensus. Though the script omits none of the common obscenities and few of the scabrous episodes that made the book notorious, it had no trouble getting through customs and ran into very little civic opposition. Only 65 theater owners agreed to exhibit it, however...
...inquiry that had as much to do with the Senate's own muddy ground rules on ethics as it had with Dodd's alleged misconduct, little else, certainly, has been clear. And cloudiest of all, perhaps, has been Dodd's own judgment...
Many veniremen are obviously eager to be among the twelve jurors who will sit in judgment on Richard Speck, 25, the adrift seaman who is accused of murdering eight student nurses in Chicago last July. A middle-aged pastry cook from Peoria, 111., assured a quizzical prosecutor, "I've not discussed the case nor heard anything about it on the radio. I'd be fair, all right." Yet when Speck's court-appointed attorney, Gerald Getty, asked her if she thought she could honestly find Speck innocent, she shook her head and replied, "No, it was taking...
...would give anything if this had never happened," said Jackson, who had never used his gun before. "I exercised what I felt was my best judgment, and I did what I thought I had to do." Nashville Police Chief Hubert O. Kemp agreed with him, went on TV within hours after Hall's death and called it "a clear case of justifiable homicide...