Word: temperamentalism
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But maybe it shouldn't have been. Although Spitzer had never before shown signs of a personal temperament that ran to the louche - Masters says his treatment of past girlfriends and female employees was always respectful - he had a long history of recklessness, a sense that the usual boundaries of...
Paterson's personal charms are not in question, but he faces massive political challenges. He inherits a budget gap of more than $4 billion, a sagging economy and an atmosphere beset by partisan gridlock. His temperament suited the state legislature, where he supported stem-cell research and alternative energy and...
Aristotle with good reason observed that the young man is not a proper student of politics: his temperament is too rash and his experience too slight to make consistently sound judgments about the inexact science of politics. But our society consistently spurns such warnings, exalting “participation,?...
Steven Millhauser seizes ideas and runs with them—until they’re out of breath and he’s out of words. The Pulitzer Prize winner’s new collection of short stories, “Dangerous Laughter,” takes the shape of...
Wouldn't it be nice if time on the job and tickets punched translated neatly into superior performance? Then finding great Presidents would be a simple matter of weighing résumés. Take a Democrat like Bill Richardson - experienced in Congress, in the Cabinet, as a diplomat and...