Word: temperamental
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Like the blues, slapstick comedy and the .400 hitter, the murder mystery enjoyed its golden age in the 1920s. That was the epoch of Agatha Christie and Ronald Knox, of G.K. Chesterton and S.S. Van Dine. The mystery craze gripped every age, sex and temperament; it spread so wide that...
Regan's staff, a mixture of onetime Treasury aides, first-term holdovers and recalled Reaganauts, has acted effectively in crises. It is credited with preventing much long-term damage from the President's visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, once the decision to go had been made, and managing...
"There is a distinction on Capitol Hill between Regan's grasp for power and his ability to use it wisely," summarizes a Republican strategist. Not just on Capitol Hill, either. No one in Washington doubts Regan's power, but there is a nagging sense that he may lack the collegial...
Few things say "forget I'm here" quite so eloquently as the pose of the shy--the averted gaze, the hunched shoulders, the body pivoted away from the crowd. Shyness is a state that can be painful to watch, worse to experience and, in survival terms at least, awfully hard...
Kosslyn said that separating indirect from direct factors is a key first step toward increasing the number of female scientists. “For example, if indirect innate factors affecting temperament are at work, it might be easiest to change the relevant aspects of the culture of science,â?...