Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Temper the Wind (by Edward Mabley & Leonard Mins; produced by Barnard Straus & Roland Haas) takes a stern look at postwar Germany. It is frankly polemical-a stage editorial dramatizing the dangers to peace that lurk within a defeated Germany, and the responsibilities that are fumbled and even selfishly flouted by Americans...
...people in Temper the Wind are a cross section of a Bavarian town, and not so much people as points of view. There is wily Industrialist Benckendorff (Reinhold Schunzel), who has played ball with the Nazis and now wants the Americans to let his closed machine-tool factory go full blast; there is his stiff-necked Prussian sister (Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there...
...Britain's House of Commons, the art of conversation had hard going. Bookish Food Minister John Strachey (The Coming Struggle for Power) tried to interrupt a speech by another member, who suggested he "wait until I have finished." Retorted Strachey: "Keep your temper." Objected Conservative Sir Gifford Fox: "Surely that is not a ministerial expression. . . . Take your hands out of your pockets and sit down." Shouted Strachey: ". . . schoolboy stuff !" The Speaker finally got a little quiet. "There is tea being provided," he announced, "in the corridor outside...
...same kind of awesome intellect and donnish wit as his younger brother, Aldous (Brave New World).* Julian's tongue hurts as often as it humors; he was once described as "alternately cherub and pickle." In his picklish mood, he often puts people off with a burst of terrifying temper. Some delegates had reservations about picking a man who has professed atheism ("I do not believe in God, because I think the idea has ceased to be a useful hypothesis"), birth control, eugenic mating, state planning (as a member of the British group called PEP). But most UNESCO delegates thought...
...Down, Sing Down. Helen's mother, something of a local concert singer herself, sent 13-year-old Helen to a friend of her own childhood, Madame Vetta Karst, the most exacting voice teacher in St. Louis. A birdlike little woman with an uncontrollable temper, Madame Karst screeched and nagged, threw pillows at her pupils. One day Helen sobbed, "I can never satisfy you!" "When you can satisfy me you won't need me any more," snapped Madame Karst. She taught Traubel to sing "down" so her tones would go over; to drop her jaw as far as possible...