Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN the curtain first went up on the drama of Czechoslovakia, TIME'S cover story (April 5) on Alexander Dubček observed that, more than any other man, he had "planned, pleaded for and nurtured the sweeping changes that promise to alter the temper and quality of Czechoslovak life, and perhaps the nature of Communism in the rest of Eastern Europe as well." As that drama began to climax with a confrontation between Dubček and a phalanx of irritated Russian leaders, TIME'S correspondents concerned themselves last week not only with the central characters...
...spite of all Trudeau's popularity, the campaign was marked by considerable bitterness, including an outpouring of hate literature. There were even the expectable innuendoes based on his backing of the homosexual reform bill and his bachelor status. But Trudeau never lost his temper or became flustered, coolly shrugged...
...black and white-applauded as the mayor of Boston walked down the city-hall corridor. "I understand," he said with a wink, "that some of you want to see me." On some days it seems as if everyone in Boston wants to see Kevin White, who has managed to temper the austere efficiency of his predecessor with urbanity and charm...
...convulsion was part carnival, part anarchist spree, increasingly spurred on by Communists-but, more than anything, it was a spontaneous spark of national temper. Rebellious students, struggling only two weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum...
Marshall did manage to temper the change somewhat. Eugene Kinasewich, assistant dean of Harvard College, had proposed that the tickets be titled "Harvard Radcliffe College Class of 1968: Senior Dance." Marshall got it changed to "Harvard and Radcliffe College Classes of 1968: Senior Dance...