Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In this collection of speeches, magazine articles, free verse that should never have been given its liberty, manifestoes, taped interviews and reminiscence, Mailer presents to the world all the familiar stigmata of the left temperament-indignation, generosity of spirit and critical courage. But the one big fact that emerges from...
So it went with Sam, who was re-elected to the bench in 1954 after a brief fling as a splinter party mayoralty candidate. And so it might have gone with his request to stay on; over the years the Administrative Board of the Judicial Conference has demonstrated a remarkable...
Malamud's own case is less clear. Ever since The Assistant and his collection of stories The Magic Barrel, which won the National Book Award in 1959, Malamud has been recognized as a unique voice in U.S. literature. He catches his vulnerable characters in lurid movement and mid-passion...
(See Cover) It is hard to imagine a figure less martial than West Germany's new Chancellor. Round of shape, soft in manner, sanguine in temperament, he is every one's rich uncle, the man who made West German prosperity grow out of the rubble. He is clearly...
For the American whose society is dominated by a concensus of political opinion, and whose economy is relatively egalitarian (except for blatant enclaves), such politics are all too easily dismissed as the result of Latin temperament. But if the United States is to maintain that the democratic process can wipe...