Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of Guys and Dolls with a social message. The message: If Robin were alive today, he would be a labor leader, and even if he gave to the poor what he stole from the rich, he would still be damned for a Hood. What with the conservative temper of the times, and a series of union scandals, the authors could never quite raise the money fof a Broadway production-a difficulty that is not hard to understand. Even in this cautious rewrite, the story often sounds like a blatant apology for crooked labor leaders...
...Brooklyn boulevardier, on TV and radio last week, seconded by Jimmy Durante and Judy Holliday. In English, Spanish, Yiddish and Italian, 19 New-York newspapers were sprinkled with a dozen other catchy ads. Sample: a migraine victim with arrows piercing his skull and the caption. "Cure for short temper, nagging headache, shattered nerves, daily depression-Get Live Music...
...dedicated to the principle that man. in his relationship with other men, should be governed by moral, or natural law. It was believed that this was something that all could comprehend. So great responsibilities were placed upon a jury, and the conscience of the chancellor was relied upon to temper legal rigors with equity. And legislatures annually change our statute laws in the hope of thereby making these laws more conformable to justice...
Mike Hollern and Rod Anderson are major scoring threats for the Green, and Dirk Frankenberg is a more than competent goalie. Frankenberg's biggest trouble is usually his own temper; but unfortunately there will not be enough Crimson fans at Hanover this weekend to get it stirred...
...something beyond "a basic simplicity of mind and heart" and "an instinct for the future." Schlesinger calls it "his extraordinary sensitivity to the emergent tendencies of his age and to the rising aspirations of ordinary people." It was also, as the Crisis of the Old Order detailed it, the temper of the times: threatening revolution, impending economic collapse and above all, human desperation. FDR may have been sensitive to the people's "aspirations," but he was also vitally aware of their needs and their sufferings. In combatting the wants of the economy and of the people, he chose...