Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...qualities that helped raise him to the White House?carry potential dangers. He does not know the Federal Government or the pressures it creates. He does not really know the politicians whom he will need to help him run the country, and it is far from clear how his temper and his ego will stand up under probable battles with Congress, the clamorous interest groups and the press...
Sadly, in Jeff Rusten's production of A Slight Ache, Gregory Farrell's Edward--fists clenched, temper detonating predictably--is rarely more than a caricature, a man who lost his mind long before the late-summer afternoon when he decides to confront "the figure at the end of the garden." The audience is deprived of Pinter's fascinating study of the way the man's personality disintegrates when threatened by a powerful negative force in the Matchseller. Barbara Borzumato, on the other hand, plays a disarmingly uncomplicated Flora. Her real, repressed self surfaces in the course of her positive reaction...
Beards at Sea. Which means that Buckley can be counted on to temper the traditions of the sea with modern irony. The book is full of the renowned Buckley wit. On beards at sea: "Arriving in Bermuda unshaved at the end of the ocean race always struck me a little like the athlete on campus who wears his sweatshirt inverted, ostensibly to disguise the varsity letter-which, of course, accentuates that which it purports to cover: like men's bikinis." On beards in general: "Men tend to look the same. I have always shuddered at the possibility that...
...vesque frequently displays a fierce temper. In one encounter with hydro executives, he slammed his fist through a glass desktop. What Lévesque's fellow Liberals found even more unsettling was his increasingly outspoken contempt for Canada's federal system. Said Lévesque: "I am first a Québécois and secondly-with rather growing doubt -a Canadian...
...sort of mini-festival that Karajan could take pride in. In the currents of sound at Carnegie could be found not only a forceful musical personality but a remarkably complete one: a man's genius, his scholarship, his temper, his power to charm and the wide range of comparative musical judgments he has formed over a lifetime. He discounts the role of inspiration. "I don't believe in it," he says. "You have to work first. No decisions had to be made when we were pressed for time. After all, I wanted to enjoy...