Word: temperance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late 20th century loves "hot" romantics and geniuses with a curse on them. Caravaggio's short life and shorter temper fit this bill. He died of a fever in 1610 at 39 in Porto Ercole, then a malarial Spanish enclave on the coast north of Rome. The last four years of his life were one long paranoiac flight from police and assassins; on the run, working under pressure, he left magnificently realized, death-haunted altarpieces in Mediterranean seaports from Naples to Valletta to Palermo. He killed one man with a dagger in the groin during a ball game in Rome...
Students will, of course, vary in the degree to which any given student will temper his or her parochial givens with cosmopolitan interactions. Some prefer a foot in parochial moorings while trekking Harvard's cosmopolitan cross-roads, which explains the existence of a Church of the Latter-Day-Saints on Brattle Street for Harvard's Mormon students and a Hillel House on Mt. Auburn St. for Harvard's Jewish students. But Black students must recognize that such preference for parochial moorings are not rights--requiring inputs by the wider college community for their enjoyment. Thus Mormon and Jewish students wishing...
...effort to allay their critics' concerns, the Guide's editors recently agreed for next year's book to preface articles with professors' statements of their course objectives. They also agreed to condense their commentaries and temper their remarks...
...testimony linked Williams to several of the bodies) are regularly shot down by crafty cross-examination. Damaging pieces of evidence (like the bloodstains found in Williams' car) are omitted, as are the many contradictions in Williams' testimony. Indeed, Williams' only mistake at the trial appears to be losing his temper on the second day of cross-examination. That is explained as simply a tactical error: after a calm day of testimony, Williams' attorney (Jason Robards) advises him to let the jury "see a real human being up there...
...come to Moscow to see her mother. When U.S. television cameramen spotted Svetlana looking grim and angry on the streets of the capital, she went out of control, showering them with obscenities in English. Dissatisfied by the cool official welcome she received, she has several times displayed her temper to the Soviet authorities. Olga, who, like her mother, still retains her U.S. citizenship, refused to wear the regulation uniform at a Moscow school. She came to class with a cross hanging around her neck...