Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make films that are useful as well as entertaining, marvelous," says Director Richard Lester. "But cinema must reflect the temper of the times. We must choose material not only on the basis of what we feel deeply, but on whether or not anybody's bloody well going...
Kicked out of school for fighting a guidance counselor in what he calls a "temper blackout," Bob was sent to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric examination. "At the nut house they told me I wasn't an alcoholic because of my age. I was told that if I handled my emotional problems, I would be able to drink normally." Bob nonetheless tried A.A., not once but three times between binges. "I just hadn't decided that I wouldn't drink any more...
FIVE YEARS AGO today, Harvard students began three days of the most intense, widespread and exciting political activity the University has ever seen. Today's Crimson includes a supplement that discusses the issues involved in the Strike, but after five years that profoundly changed the temper of the times, it sometimes seems difficult to see those issues in perspective and to see what student radicalism was all about...
...yogurt? Yes and yes. Drama has a special cultural significance. "Of all genres, the drama is by its nature most immediately sensitive to changes in response, since its offerings are constantly (and financially) tested by audiences: there must be uninterrupted mass appeal...plays register changes in the public temper more quickly, more openly...than do private forms," wrote Eric Rothstein in Restoration Tragedy. Drama is a symptom and a symbol of a community turned toward reality or away from it. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, but neither, one might add, can it afford to have...
...population that stands at 36 million and increases by 750,000 more every year. For the past year, he has been both President and Premier, but he is now ready to relinquish the premiership as part of a broad move to a peacetime economy. His aim is to temper Arab socialism with more Western-style free enterprise...