Word: temperance
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Four years after taking over the Giants, Dark was fired. Temper tantrums were not the reason. Alleged racism and self-confessed philandering were the cause of his downfall. The racism charge resulted from a newspaper interview in which Dark seemed to be saying that his black and Latino players were "dumb." Dark claimed that he had been misquoted. He seemed to be riding out that storm when the Giant front office discovered that he was openly having an affair with an airline stewardess. In those days, baseball people, like the heroes of old-fashioned westerns, were supposed to be paragons...
...Until the tremendous sports-money boom in the 60s, these distinctions went unchallenged. Golf, tennis and billiards, originally the sports of the privileged, were played in private enclaves where family mattered more than class. Privacy was a given of the rich, reserve the rule of deportment, and understatement the temper of the play. Sports as spectacle--their special sports, that is--was unthinkable. The contests were between gentlemen and were paradigms of what civilization was all about...
...Guerrillas attacked the railway to Rhodesia for the first time this year. Only two weeks ago, they ambushed traffic on the main road linking the second city of Beira (pop. 400,000) with the capital of Lourenço Marques (pop. 700,000), killing three truck drivers. Such events temper optimism with apprehension...
...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...