Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Expounding a dubious theory linking politics and the weather. Ayub Khan continued: "Above all, you need a really cool and phlegmatic temperament, which only people living in cold climates seem to have. Also it requires a long period of probation. The British took 600 years, and even France, which gave...
"I have created." says Conductor George Szell. "an instrument perfectly suited to express my artistic intentions." Szell's instrument is the 104-member Cleveland Orchestra, which he designed as a kind of hybrid-a cross-breeding of American precision and cleanliness of tone with European warmth and temperament. Satisfied...
A Touch of Banana Peel. Rowlandson first exhibited a drawing when he was only 18, and soon both Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West were praising him. But serious painting on a large scale never suited the Rowlandson temperament. A ?7,000 legacy from an aunt gave him a taste...
Beyond Ignoring. Texas-born Sarah McClendon, 49, plays the role of President-baiter by both temperament and design. As a cub reporter in Tyler, Texas, she once picked up a telephone and clobbered a clergyman who was pummeling her editor for running an uncomplimentary story. This same pugnacity has characterized...
Died. Florence Kathryn Lewis, 50, quietly powerful daughter of the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, a plump, outwardly placid woman who left Bryn Mawr to become her father's secretary, buffered his fierce temperament with her own dexterous diplomacy, eventually rose to become boss of District 50...