Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One of the State Department's most persistent domestic headaches is the housing of African envoys in Washington-a city that is Southern by temperament as well as by geography. Last week the problem was very nearly solved, as six Washington real estate men, prodded by President Kennedy, offered...
Proper & English. An American by residence, Miss Hewitt came to dote on Wild West sagas, Civil War exploits. But by citizenship and temperament she remained forever England. She drank Scotch whisky, disguised modesty with a tart tongue, concealed generosity by demanding high standards. She was also properly foresighted. Anticipating her...
Reason Is Evil. To the romantic temperament, nothing succeeds like excess, and Yeats preached the dogma of excess as an esthetic necessity. He applauded Shelley for agreeing with Blake "that Reason not only created Ugliness, but all other evils." Such statements seem slightly more reasonable when Yeats is placed where...
The job of the "short man," or "fireman," is the most exacting in baseball. He works on no regular schedule, must constantly be ready for his manager's call. On a team well supplied with dependable starters, he may dawdle unnoticed day after day on the bullpen bench, get...
Composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco, 66, one of the most prolific and successful of Italy's traditionalist composers, wrote his Merchant in competition for the "Campari Prize," awarded by the opera-loving manufacturers of that bitter Italian aperitif. Castelnuovo-Tedesco's winning entry shifted some of the play's...