Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temper of the final debate on Guatemala's new constitution was hardly above the barroom level, the charter itself, proclaimed last week by President Carlos Castillo Armas, was a model of good intentions. Major changes: ¶ Churches and religious orders, denied legal status since Guatemala's anticlerical laws of the 1870s, get back full lawful rights, including the right to own property. ¶ The Communist and other totalitarian parties are banned, along with all Communist activity by individuals or groups. ¶ The National University is guaranteed 2% of the national budget. ¶ The exiling of citizens, hitherto...
...patients over a period of several years at New York Hospital and introducing topics of conflict while recording their blood pressure, the authors confirmed what doctors have long believed: hypertension is closely related to underlying emotional disturbances. When Katherine's suppressed resentment finally exploded and she vented her temper on her husband, her blood pressure dropped sharply. After she divorced him and remarried, it became normal, and most of her other symptoms disappeared...
...subjects of the Advocate's manifestoes may not interest the reader, at least its fiction, which continues to overshadow the poetry this year, proves well worth reading. John Ratte's "Love Story" is by far the most outstanding piece. Its temper is unusual for the Advocate, whose contributors often seem bent on merely displaying to the world the sensitivity of their souls. Ratte neither sinks into a morass of hypersensitive depression, nor, though he is highly imaginative, does he lean on the grotesque. The story can perhaps best be described as a complete reversal of the typical Saturday Evening Post...
...short, Sargent was a painter of appearances. Nothing could be more foreign to the modern, analytical temper, which is always denying that appearances count for much...
Your Dec. 5 review of The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book would seem to indicate that children's verses follow the temper of the times. My contribution...