Word: impetuousity
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Sir: Marijuana, in effective dosages, affects mood and decision-making centers of the brain, as does alcohol only at the level of drunkenness. Pot, in contrast to alcohol, has little effect on the mechanics of body movement, whereas the drunk is partially protected by being unable to carry out many...
The present regime overthrew Khrushchev not only because it found many of his actions boorish and his policies impetuous, but also because he had a way of forcing his will on the Politburo and the Central Committee.
Right v. Left. A solid, handsome man who, at 26, is the world's youngest monarch, Constantine thus became a besieged king, caught between the demagoguery and displeasure of Greece's leftists and the impetuous action of the rightist military. The dilemma was all the more ironic because the military...
The Fighting Prince of Donenal. Red Hugh O'Donnell, prince of Donegal, was the great Irish hero of the 16th century. At 15, the wild child of the North was such a terror to the English that the viceroy shut him up in Dublin Castle for safekeeping. At 19...
Led Astray. The loss to the vast museum-going public in other cities is all the greater because Manet, perhaps more than any other painter, gains by the imposing presence and scale of the originals, 17 of which in the Philadelphia show have never before been exhibited in the U.S...