Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If a national temperament is reflected in part by the people's recreational abilities, then Finland's dogged tradition of excellence in sports is likely to stand her in good stead when some of the 3,500,000 Russians in Leningrad pour across the border. In any case it will...
-FROM THE SOUTH SEAS-Margaret Mead-Morrow ($4). Dr. Mead's three books, Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, are here reprinted in one volume, with a new preface. These gently acute, strongly persuasive studies of the...
North Americans not only do not share this hero-worship, they probably know less about Bolívar than about any national hero in history. Such ignorance, thinks capable Biographer Rourke (Gómez: Tyrant of the Andes), is a gauge of "a century of misunderstandings and suspicions between the...
In no way was this clearer than in the way the U. S. used its leisure. Citizens bought more tennis racquets, handballs, oil paints, golf balls, shot guns, archery sets, ping pong tables, croquet sets, duck decoys, fishing tackle, riding boots, bathing suits, bicycles, travel books, pianos, phonograph records, violins...
From the some home-town, from the same school, and in the same class with Lee, comes the other starting Sophomore back, Charley Spreyer. Unlike Lee in temperament, Spreyer seems easy-going on the field; but somehow he's always there. He's the Larry Kelley type of "clutch" player...