Word: temperance
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...black and white-applauded as the mayor of Boston walked down the city-hall corridor. "I understand," he said with a wink, "that some of you want to see me." On some days it seems as if everyone in Boston wants to see Kevin White, who has managed to temper the austere efficiency of his predecessor with urbanity and charm...
...convulsion was part carnival, part anarchist spree, increasingly spurred on by Communists-but, more than anything, it was a spontaneous spark of national temper. Rebellious students, struggling only two weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum...
...account of the state of the drama can ignore the society around it, since the theater is the most social of all art forms. Drama of sweep and scope makes large statements about the nature of life and refracts the temper of the times. All the great ages of theater have possessed a vaulting image of man, and an absorptive, undeviating concern with his destiny. "In apprehension, how like a god" is not casual Elizabethan rhetoric, but the supremely assured recognition that man is the noblest, grandest creature that walks the earth. And what does contemporary U.S. society...
...spite of Michener's long-windedness, no single book since V. S. Pritchett's The Spanish Temper and Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain has succeeded so well in embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality of the Spanish character-which Michener sums up in one evocative word, duende, meaning "mysterious and ineffable charm." All the immemorial sights are here too: the revelry following the feria at Seville, the impact of the roomful of Velázquez paintings at the Prado, the soaring, glowing Gothic church...
Marshall did manage to temper the change somewhat. Eugene Kinasewich, assistant dean of Harvard College, had proposed that the tickets be titled "Harvard Radcliffe College Class of 1968: Senior Dance." Marshall got it changed to "Harvard and Radcliffe College Classes of 1968: Senior Dance...