Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know him that well. I couldn't even begin to make a judgment, because there is so little definition to this man. I don't know that many people know...
Baker, whose competence and political judgment are nearly flawless, is one Reagan appointee to emerge with his reputation intact, if not enhanced. He might have been touted as a presidential candidate himself if he had not been so close to the Vice President. Bush is the friend Baker turned to after his first wife died, the one he goes fishing with, the godfather to one of his children. Baker, 58, managed Bush's 1980 presidential campaign; he is the person most involved in Bush's vice-presidential choice...
...Masson blames psychiatrists because they do not agree with him. Although the author's slash-and-burn style of argument can be entertaining, readers should keep their hands on their wallets. Assertions tend to be sold as established facts. Masson writes, for example, that before psychotherapy begins, a "moral judgment" must be made that potential patients "are not living well, or as well as other people, and are therefore in need of 'help.' We often claim that the people seeking psychotherapy make this moral judgment on their own, but this is almost never true." Almost never true, that mentally...
...sure to play the groveling loyal and unquestioning vice president that Bush has been all along. But while the vice president may seem wiser, more mature and more self-assured in comparison with Quayle, who seems nervous and overwhelmed by the spotlight now shining on him, Bush's judgment remains questionable...
...stark contrast to the worldly reformer and sage is the notion of Jesus as a stern prophet who predicted the coming judgment of God. This Jesus, unlike the more secular versions, had a keen sense of his mission and knew that his death would fulfill it. He was clearly influenced by John the Baptist's preaching of repentance and perhaps by the apocalyptic warnings of the Essenes, the Jewish sect that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls...