Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students ranking below 6.0 are usually admitted only if they appear to be the "happy bottom quarter type." according to Glimp. "That's the kind of guy whose temperament is such that he won't mind holding up the rest of the class."
MAHLER comprehended life and therefore his music as spiritual dramaturgy. His genius resides in the incorporation of every conceivable human mood and impulse, short of mordancy, into an art of the highest technical integrity. Anguish and exultation resonate with equal energy throughout his entire symphonic cycle. His dramatic frescoes are...
Then, overnight, Rumania's warm Latinate temperament-and Ceausescu's determined policy of independence-began to blossom. Workmen decked out the motorcade route with U.S. and Rumanian flags, newspapers bannered the arrival, and factory workers-let off their jobs several hours early-began streaming out to Otopeni Airport...
In a few of the criminal cases, one or two votes could possibly change the balance. Miranda, for example, was decided by a 5-to-4 margin. It may be that Burger and Justices of similar temperament will in the future give the police the benefit of the doubt in...
Sir: Sam Yorty's campaign emerges as the most repugnant and cankerous opportunism witnessed in recent times. This particular variety of infectious demi-think is as sinister a threat to America as the nuclear stalemate or environmental pollution, for it moves the electoral decision from reason to the irrational...