Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond purely self-interested intentions, Kissinger's activity with the FBI exposes an insecurity which most Kissinger biographers inevitably claim lies beneath his arrogance. At Harvard, this anxiety displayed itself in his retreating behavior and his distaste for faculty polities. In over-reacting to a critical pamphlet. Kissinger once more...
The nascent Bruce era is as different from the expired Hayes regime as the two men are different in appearance and temperament. Hayes is the epitome of the gravel-voiced, granite-jawed football fascist. Bruce is central casting's version of a small-town insurance agent: a paunchy, balding...
The Muppets grow ever more couth. First they danced Swine Lake with Ballet Superstar Rudolf Nureyev. Now, on Nov. 12, they will sing Pigoletto with the incomparable Beverly Sills going trill to trill against the divine Miss Piggy. So far, surprisingly, there have been no pyrotechnics of temperament between the...
Maybe Alexander Korda was careless about ordering his affairs because he had witnessed so many of the century's upheavals. Maybe it was the strong under current of melancholy in his temperament that caused him to regard all permanencies as delusions. Whatever. Michael Korda 's title is apt...
However, Harvard's assistant women's track coach John Babington, who has coached Beckford on the AAU Liberty Club since 1977, has an explanation: "Darlene's temperament is such that she'd rather concentrate her efforts over short, intense races than over 18 minutes. She just doesn't get as...