Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In "The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert," Just sketches the dilemma facing a Southern Liberal congressman, once an intellectual, whose attitude toward the Indochina war becomes intertwined with conflicting impulses. Somehow Just's congressman must balance the demands of his House colleagues, his constituents, his best friend and his conscience; and...
It was just one year ago this week that Richard Nixon was celebrating his fabulous electoral sweep and seemed to stand at the very summit of power and opportunity. Hard-core Nixon haters may gloat over his fall from those heights; for most Americans it is a matter of profound...
But he then made a further statement--tragic, noble, but naively futile. He would not, he said, play any more concerts anywhere in the world until Spain was again free. Casals had no weapons with which to fight Franco. He was not of a political temperament and could think of...
Altogether, Dahrendorf should fit his new post well. From the days when the Webbs' friend George Bernard Shaw complained about their "incorrigible spooning over social statistics," the school has proved a lively intellect base for reform. Says Dahrendorf friend, Columbia Historian Fritz Stern "He is by temperament a radical...
They did not "belong" in New York, with the splashy gesture and the stuffed angora goat; and except for the work of one or two painters like Kelly's friend Jack Youngerman, there is not much context for them even today. Since then, orthodoxies have spawned and died in...