Word: temperance
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Such palpable hits reveal exhaustive learning. But unlike many essayist-reviewers, Pritchett never preens. His erudition is like old money, reassuringly there but tastefully in the background. His impulse is always to understand rather than attack; he often acknowledges the criticism of others so that he can temper it. He calls Edmund Wilson's plain, sometimes blunt style "democratic, in the sense that this distinguished man will not for long allow one phrase to be better than another." Evelyn Waugh is similarly pardoned: "To object to his snobbery is as futile as objecting to cricket, for every summer...
...refreshing to encounter a dramatist who can people a stage rather than depopulate it. Playwright Shank's specific insight into the modern temper is that most people nowadays are talking to themselves under the guise of talking to others. Fortunately, the Actors Theater of Louisville is conversing on a national network...
From 1945 to 1950, Thesiger lived for long periods among the Bedu (Bedouins) of the Arabian Peninsula. "I was," he writes, "humbled by my illiterate companions, who possessed in so much greater measure generosity, courage, endurance, patience, good temper and light-hearted gallantry. Among no other people have I felt the same sense of personal inferiority." He also shared the soggy life of the Madan, Shia Muslims who inhabit the reedy swamps of southeastern Iraq. His two books about these experiences have become contemporary classics: Arabian Sands (1959) and The Marsh Arabs...
...worse. The militants are still armed with automatic rifles and Uzi submachine guns, and in their four months of prison duty have received intensive weapons training. As one Carter aide put it: "The President is as frustrated as anyone, but he's not going to lose his temper and pull a Mayaguez." Banisadr's view on the military option was similar. He and Ghotbzadeh considered ordering a surprise seizure of the embassy two weeks ago, but ruled it out as being prohibitively risky...
...Northampton, Mass., from zealous Secret Service agents kept local TV newsmen too far from the plane to film Kennedy's arrival, the candidate summoned them to within camera range and then obligingly, and painfully, hauled himself out of his limousine. That kind of difficulty has sometimes frayed his temper, and probably contributed to his erratic campaign performance. Kennedy's aides have had to rewrite his schedules frequently to accommodate his back problems. The Senator has asked them to rule out factory tours shakes he wants to avoid the long hikes on hard floors. When he shakes hands with...