Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seasoned Judgment. In Oklahoma City, arrested for driving a motor scooter without a license, William Bryant, 88, told the traffic judge he had not applied for a license because he thought he had to be accompanied by his parents...
...Value Judgment. In Taipei, Formosa, Mrs. Kao Lai Chao-chi, who feeds 50 rats each night in her home charitably, explained: "Rats are no worse than many human beings...
Racial Segregation: Any segregation that "interferes with the citizen's equality of opportunity in both the economic and the political fields" is "morally wrong"-a judgment that seemed to carry the President slightly beyond his previous down-the-middle position that his job is to enforce the law of the land without making moral pronouncements...
Said Madrid Critic Alfredo Ramon: "There are only a few museums whose judgment is infallible. The Metropolitan is one of them. They know perfectly well what they're doing...
...Pavlov Route. Man's fate, as Condon sees it, is to work hard, sacrifice much, lead an intelligent, just and fruitful life, and then show up at the Last Judgment minus his pants. Sooner or "later, like the blind beggars toppling after their blind leader in Bruegel's chillingly ironic painting, all the author's characters stumble into the ditch of mortality. Satirist Condon is not afraid to set up outrageously improbable situations to achieve his effects. In his first novel, The Oldest Confession (1958), an Achilles among criminals was brought to heel while trying to hijack...