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Word: judgments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times building on 43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched immediately by the impatient copy desk-he delivered his judgment ("inherently hopeless'') on Goodbye Charlie, the comedy he had just seen. Within an hour, the Times's presses were reproducing an appraisal that would be read respectfully, not only by those directly involved in the show, but by everyone connected with the American theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: One on the Aisle | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice in the affairs of the party and the nation"; Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy was "a liberal and, in the judgment of many, a fighting liberal." But Harry Truman's own favorite, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, was unequivocally presented as "a confirmed and dedicated liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disenchanted Evening | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Even Harry Truman got into the act, with a judgment that Fidel Castro "would be all right if he had a haircut and decent clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Headlines at Last | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...idea. "I think it's an intelligent device for distributing news releases and handouts from commercial concerns," said the Los Angeles Mirror-News' managing editor, Ed Murray. "A machine like this doesn't commit you to use the stuff, and I think one's judgment of the news value is likely to be better if it comes in by a machine. And it helps cut down on all that opening of letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Handouts by Wire | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. With taste and judgment, the author provides an eloquent appreciation of a magnificent city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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