Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HEINRICH BIBER: EIGHT SONATAS FOR VIO LIN AND CONTINUO (2 LPs; Cambridge). Although the Baroque revival has dredged up a good deal of dross, it has also led to the discovery of some golden nuggets. Sonya Monosoff plays these with rich tone and temperament and gets colors seldom heard today...
But so far she has acquired none of the signs of soprano temperament, is instead almost girlishly exuberant about her new career. Her dressing room is crowded with "furry little toy animals," and like a teen-ager after the senior prom, she brings home all her curtain-call flowers and...
The two are close friends, but miles apart in temperament. Extravert Rauschenberg is now touring Japan with the Merce Cunningham ballet, for which he whips up a spontaneous stage set a night out of the jetsam of commercial products. More reticent, Jasper Johns plays the position of a mandarin: his...
Where Ponce de Leon failed, the chemists may succeed. What they are doing is enough to give pause to the philosophers and make theologians nervous: some chemists are experimenting with compounds to change the human temperament, making the phlegmatic man more personable, and others are progressing rapidly toward discovery of...
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."