Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LYNDON JOHNSON'S fifth and final Thanksgiving Proclamation was not the conventional catalogue of national self-congratulation. How could it be, after the sort of year the nation-and the world-has experienced? Flat and matter-of-fact, it fell far short of eloquence. Yet in tone and temper, it probably came close to expressing the mood of Americans in a year many of them would rather forget...
Oddly enough, the uneasy mood and the uncertain temper may in their own way be a cause for thanksgiving. With an innocent optimism that has always been a great strength, Americans have usually seen their glasses as half full, confident that they would eventually be brimming over; others, more accustomed to want, usually see their glasses as half empty, fearful that the rest, too, will soon drain away. No longer are Americans that smugly certain-and where there is doubt there is also the impulse for change. Thanksgiving has sometimes been seen as a giant Sears catalogue of the country...
...father figure, however, was far from a permissive Robinson. Cook, a brilliant, self-taught naval officer, navigator and amateur astronomer, customarily kept his Yorkshire temper and sizzling vocabulary in check. But, as revealed by his journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that...
...short, along with Forman's longer feature, presents a complete set that, in a very delicate way, expresses something of the temper of the Czechoslovakian people...
...Throwing Temper Tantrums. Here is a Lear with a willful, robber baron strain of not quite legitimate authority. The viewer feels that he has carved out his kingdom just as he proposes to carve up the map of England for his daughters. As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone. Cobb reveals how the fool in Lear is intrinsically a child. This 80-year-old is an eight-year-old in disguise, throwing...