Word: temperance
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...behavior one starts with the assumption that the best and most worthy motive is ensuring the welfare of the greatest number of people. With this motive one is freed from total, slavish devotion to all other rules. This is a horrifying freedom and one must immediately temper it with a sober assessment, springing from the ethic of responsibility of how means and ends ought to be reconciled, fortified by the knowledge that the ethic of ultimate ends will, at some moment, forbid further compromise...
...Paine Hall temper-tantrum was the act, not of serious revolutionaries, but of naughty children trying to bully the rest of us--students and faculty, left and right...
...Temper Tantrum. Considering the original provocation, what followed was a temper tantrum unmatched even in the annals of petulant Latin American military men. The generals, feeling surrounded by hostility from much of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, the press, the students and many businessmen, overreacted when even the meek Congress dared to defy them. Radio stations were ordered to stop broadcasting the result of the Alves vote. Censors and policemen invaded newspapers and press-agency offices. The respected daily O Estado de Sao Paulo was ordered to kill its morning edition because a critical editorial warned Costa e Silva...
LYNDON JOHNSON'S fifth and final Thanksgiving Proclamation was not the conventional catalogue of national self-congratulation. How could it be, after the sort of year the nation-and the world-has experienced? Flat and matter-of-fact, it fell far short of eloquence. Yet in tone and temper, it probably came close to expressing the mood of Americans in a year many of them would rather forget...
Oddly enough, the uneasy mood and the uncertain temper may in their own way be a cause for thanksgiving. With an innocent optimism that has always been a great strength, Americans have usually seen their glasses as half full, confident that they would eventually be brimming over; others, more accustomed to want, usually see their glasses as half empty, fearful that the rest, too, will soon drain away. No longer are Americans that smugly certain-and where there is doubt there is also the impulse for change. Thanksgiving has sometimes been seen as a giant Sears catalogue of the country...