Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite the district's poverty, many peasants do not want lower prices for the crops they sell to the cities. Besides, Madame Pandit fought a brilliant campaign. She curbed the arrogant Nehru temper, of which she has her full share, and conducted herself with a humility she had never displayed as India's aggressively "neutralist" ambassador to Washington and Moscow. On the hustings, she gestured toward her blue-rinsed grey hair, described herself as a daughter returning home in her old age, and asked plaintively: "If you fail to give me room, where can I go?" While...
While the play makes Maxime and his friends as mean-spirited as Bitos, it sides somewhat with the aristocrats. Those born to power may be corrupt, Anouilh seems to argue, but they know how to rule and they can dispassionately temper justice with mercy. But the arrivistes of power, the burning incorruptible zealots like Bitos-Robespierre, pursue justice so obsessively that they end up being savagely unjust. Anouilh masterfully unfolds the psychology of the revolutionary mentality, with its abstract love of "humanity" but contempt for individual men, together with the secret snobbery of the proletarian leader who greatly prizes...
...professional skill and savvy on the other qualified him even for the Supreme Command, which was eventually denied to him through the failure of his superiors to recognize and appreciate the intrinsic and overwhelming value of such a combination." But at another, he concedes that Patton's trigger temper and lack of political sophistication probably disqualified him for higher responsibilities. Patton botched his proconsul duties, first as the ruler of French Morocco in 1942-43, and later as Military Governor of Bavaria. He gave Eisenhower no choice but to ease...
ELECTION SPECIAL (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Palo Alto County in Iowa has always voted for the winning presidential candidate. A study of this county's temper...
...that Lyndon Johnson is "soft on Communism"-an inflammatory Republican slogan a decade ago, but now a burnt-out cliché. Another Goldwater slogan that boomeranged was "extremism in the defense of liberty"-even if it was intended as a paraphrase of Tom Paine's aphorism: "Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice...