Word: temperamental
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The performance began with a piece titled “Groove for Mr. Charlie,” choreographed by Adrienne Hawkins and dedicated to the soul-jazz organist Charles Earland whose music served as the piece’s focal point. The jazzy temperament motivated the quick movement of the...
Bloody strife as a result of disputed elections is no less likely in Iraq than it was in Algeria. Though Saddam Hussein is certainly a brutal and despotic ruler worthy of intense opprobrium, President Bush needs to ask himself some critical questions about the character and temperament of any future...
The third installment of Stephane Huete's Proust project - which will likely last until 2020 - has just been released in English. With the intention of adapting all seven volumes of the French masterpiece, Huete's latest continues the story of volume two: "Within a Budding Grove." Set at a French...
Before scientists can figure out how to treat these conditions, they must first figure out what's behind them. Few researchers doubt that when disorders are so woven into temperament, some of what causes them is written into genes. A Norwegian study published in 2000 examined identical and fraternal twins...
Of all the great empires, the Mongols left the scantiest legacy. The Greeks gave us literature and philosophy, the Romans architecture and law, the British railroads and cricket. The Mongols, true to their nomadic temperament, built nothing and walked away as if their empire were a mere winter camp. They...