Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One of Keegan's charms has always been his independence, his sometimes brusque contempt for the merely academic: "How blinkered social scientists are to the importance of temperament," he remarks while discussing the attractions of warrior life and military culture. "I am tempted, after a lifetime's acquaintance with the...
America desperately needs a politician with Perot's fiscal responsibility but without his questionable temperament, assorted reactionary views and general mild insanity.
! "We've got good instability today," a lean fellow with the quick eyes of a race-car driver says with satisfaction. He's an American hang-glider pilot named Jim Lee, and he is talking about air masses, not temperament. Instability, good to violent, is what the high desert of...
In the demonology of conservative politics, Hackney has become a personification of political correctness, that most nettlesome of campus issues. As president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1981, Hackney has handled a series of incidents that critics say reflect on his judgment and temperament. Conservative standard-bearer Patrick Buchanan...
Hackney has other supporters. Among them is former rival and Brown University president Vartan Gregorian, who was passed over for the Penn presidency in favor of Hackney in 1980. Says he: "Sheldon Hackney has a judicious, moderate temperament -- and you need somebody who is an umpire" to run the NEH...