Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While Patty was behind bars, her lawyers declared that she was receiving threats from S.L.A. sympathizers and argued more strenuously than ever that she should be bailed out, maintaining that she would be safer under private guard at home. Earlier this month there were reports that Patty was throwing temper tantrums in the Federal Youth Center in Pleasanton, Calif. She was also said to be upset by the attention paid her by young female prisoners, who made her a cult heroine of the left. Patty demanded to be moved, and on Nov. 9 was transferred to San Diego...
...clock tinkerer whose son turns terrorist. Phillipe Noiret is still quivering with emotion for two hours, and anything more has failed to materialize. Director Taverneir is content to focus on Noiret's face forever--who need dialogue, plot, or motivations? Apparently not Taverneir. Noiret has an occasional temper tantrum, which might in some circles pass for character development. We, however, are still not buying...
...necessarily be best for others. However, some of its influential thinkers have challenged prevalent assumptions. Poets and playwrights are curiously tentative, if not pessimistic. Young Americans roam in search of new values. Public self-questioning and a capacity for self-correction are indeed among the graces of the American temper...
...foreign policy differ from Ford's? The answer seemed to be that, aside from some changes in nuance and emphasis-for example, Carter would probably give a higher priority to strengthening relations with traditional allies-U.S. foreign policy would be basically unchanged. Such crucial factors as judgment, temper, coolness under pressure could, of course, only be speculated about. But after the debate, many people now involved in formulating the Ford foreign policy concluded that almost anything they do not like about Carter's views could probably be set right by a little on-the-job experience...
Professor Goldman said that he saw "a sense of worry among the people about the apparent erosion to the left in Italy and France, and a desire to temper...