Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But neither by temperament, background nor age does Agostini count himself among pop artists. At 51, he can remember working for the WPA and showing on Manhattan's 10th Street when it was still the center of the avantgarde. Brought up as a poor Hell's Kitchen kid...
There are still problems of nationality and temperament. German girls are judged good workers but eat too much to suit the French, while the French, claim the English, tend to leave rings around the tub. Italians are meticulous ironers but recalcitrant dishwashers, the Swiss overly concerned with dust but not...
"Some day," she promises, "I am going to lose my temper. I've never done it, and I'm determined. But if you are going to throw a temperament you have to be damn sure you're right. Otherwise it won't quite come off."
Pakistan's President Ayub Khan once frankly declared that his country wasn't ready for parliamentary democracy because it requires a "cool and phlegmatic temperament that only people living in cold climates seem to have." Accord ingly, only 80,000 "basic democrats"-out of a total population of...
Two-thirds of Canada's 19 million citizens speak English; one-third are fiercely French - in language, culture, temperament. And now some secessionist sentiment is springing up in the province of Quebec, gathering support among French Canadians who have long complained bitterly of second-class citizenship. Pearson has made...