Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard's high school ROTC instructor, Major Robert Vegvary: "Something monstrous and horrible must have happened at home." Indeed, to hear local residents tell it, something had. Though a devoted father, the elder Jahnke was described by those who knew him as an ultrastrict disciplinarian with an explosive temper that often boiled over into physical violence. He doled out severe beatings to his children for the most minor infractions; his Puerto Rican-born wife Maria stood by helplessly during her husband's fist-wielding tirades and sometimes suffered violence herself. Said a friend of the family...
...things too long mute: love of the land (in this case, Southern Appalachia), the inviolability of the family, the rigorous ethic of hard work and the rebuke and solace of an omnipresent God. To think of that as a didactic, neo-conservative agenda is to miss the tone and temper of the work. Foxfire has already been called a "hillbilly Our Town," which is close to the mark. And even those with less than a lifetime's acquaintance with the work of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy must know that this pair could strike songs from stones...
...spoke calmly and deliberately, never raising his voice or losing his temper. Ariel Sharon, Israel's embattled Defense Minister, was on the witness stand, testifying before the commission of inquiry that is investigating the circumstances surrounding the Beirut massacre of Sept. 16 to 18. Since the hearings were being held in a lecture hall of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the setting seemed as relaxed as a college seminar. In fact, it was a tension-charged inquiry that could lead, in a few months' time, to the resignation of the tough and ambitious Sharon and perhaps even...
...homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned." Mamet's problem in Edmond is that his intuitional reach exceeds his dramatic grasp...
...Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming red hair, fiery temper and anti-Communist views...