Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The original director of the Trilateral Commission, and now the leading scholar in the Carter foreign policy entourage, is the brilliant Polish-born Zbigniew Brzezinski, 48, of Columbia University. His admirers consider Brzezinski at least as brainy as Kissinger and more stable in temperament. Two foreign-born professors in succession...
The conventional wisdom of 1976 is that the public is disillusioned by politicians who overpromise, and is more concerned with character, judgment and ability. And here, oddly enough, it is two survivors, Carter and Reagan, so different in their outlook and temperament, who share a common trait. In part because...
A picture emerges from the movie of two different women, differing radically in temperament, locked in a timeless, unchanging struggle with each other. Edith, nearing the end of her days, reviews her life with contentment. "I had my cake, loved it, masticated and chewed it," she tells us. "I had...
In one particular passage, the portly Rostropovich advised Ma not to give everything he had, for doing so would detract from the importance of the climax. "You have to guard your temperament a little bit," he said to Ma. "If you fall in love with a girl and tell her...
Even allowing for this loose definition of intellectual, very few get involved in the political process as I have defined it. It may be temperament, inability to communicate on the levels which politics demands, or fear of failure. The intellectual people who end up getting elected are accidental in the...