Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yemen's Major General Hassan Amri had long been noted for his sulfurous temper, and his desk-pounding rages frequently sent aides fleeing from his office in terror. But despite his reputation for hotheadedness, the gruff general, 48, had managed to become Premier of the primitive Arab nation no fewer than seven times since 1962, when nationalist forces supported by Egyptian troops overthrew the conservative Moslem imamate.* Now, however, Amri's temper has apparently cost a young Yemeni shopkeeper his life and Amri his job as Premier and commander in chief of the armed forces. It is unlikely...
...Flash of Temper. Amri's army friends succeeded in having him exiled instead, and a few days later the general turned up in Beirut with his twelve-year-old son. Sources who have seen him say that he seems subdued and regretful. But the old temper still flashes, and he was about to smash a Beirut photographer's camera at the mountain resort where he is staying when the Yemeni ambassador stepped in and cooled...
...Vesuvian temper is legendary. One of his biographers, Theo Lippman Jr., reports that "he gave us ten interviews for the book [Muskie], and in the last one, we brought up the subject of his temper. He lost his temper." The Republican National Committee, as part of its research on Muskie, has an affidavit from a Maine telephone operator swearing that during a Muskie vacation a few years ago, a telephone repairman had to go up to the Senator's cottage three times to fix a phone that had been ripped off the wall...
...including Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, cautiously declined under questioning to rule out future controls on profits and dividends, which are not covered by the 90-day freeze. They had little choice but to do so, if only to avoid setting off another fit of temper by A.F.L.C.I.O. Boss George Meany, who adamantly insists that the Administration was unfair to working men and women by freezing wages but not profits. In his Labor Day message, Meany angrily declared that "the President's program does not meet the test of equity"which he defined as equal...
This is one of those resounding overstatements at once perfectly true and thoroughly misleading. It is not hard to find elements in Beat writing-or any other serious writing of the time-that predicted something as vague as "almost schizophrenic change" in "the temper of our times." Allen Ginsberg, whose poem Howl is generally thought to have started the literary side of the movement, sang of devastated minds, mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs. Gregory Corso raged against authority, lamented the thinning of his wild hair and questioned the institution of marriage. Jack Kerouac's On the Road bubbled about...