Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disciplined them. But shared in what measure? Only months and years of accumulated judgment might tell. Above all, the event weighed on the individual soldiers, most of them back in their peaceful home towns, living with the knowledge of what they did. When Private Meadlo stepped on a land mine shortly after the massacre and it ripped away his foot, he screamed: "God has punished me for what I did in the village." Other men of the company have recurrent nightmares about My Lai. The scene itself is quiet now. All that remains today is a low pile...
...Tuesday evening. My fault not his. If members of the Harvard faculties are to participate in re Project in a substantial way. I believe it to be very important that Harvard is represented on whatever Board determines Project policies. If these "representatives" are simply self-appointed individuals, my judgment is that their views will tend to become less influential over a period of time than if they have been appointed to the task, by the President, on the basis of an informal agreement between the two institutions. However, my judgment may be mistaken. If M.I.T. decides to give full weight...
...Vice President blundered when he cited examples to indicate bad news judgment by the Times. He declared that it "did not carry a word" about 300 Congressmen and 59 Senators who signed a letter endorsing the President's policy in Viet Nam. The fact is that the story missed the first edition but made all others...
...plays that followed The Constant Prince (TIME, Oct. 24) were Akropolis and Apocalypsis cum Figuris. Akropolis contains a staggering irony in its title, for it is actually about Auschwitz. The title is an implicit judgment on a civilization that plummets from its zenith to its lowest depths. The inmates of the death camp spend most of the evening dumping each other in and out of wheelbarrows, piecing together homely sections of stovepipe and finally, one by one, entering a crematorium. The playgoer's knowledge that the pipes that the members of the cast have strung about the stage will...
...English, his father Syrian) took a law degree at Yale and served as a Navy pilot in World War II, flying the first U.S. jet cross-country in 1944. After the war, he hopped from job to job with indifferent success. At Pan Am, however, his energy and judgment have earned him the respect of associates and the confidence of Founder Trippe...