Word: temperance
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Giap's life has not been easy. He married in 1938 and fathered a girl, but his wife was arrested by the French and died in prison while he was in China; he has since remarried. An emotional man whose temper often got the better of his cool-and earned him the nickname of "The Volcano and the Snow"-he has, at times, been put down by Ho. An outburst against a French general in 1945 cost him a place on the negotiating team that tried to win independence from France at the end of World...
Father (Alan Webb) is a curmudgeonly tyrant nearing 80, marching with faltering step and bristling temper into his pitiable dotage. He has sapped the life out of his wife (Lillian Gish), bullied his middle-aged son (Hal Holbrook) into something resembling psychic impotence, and barred his door to a daughter (Teresa Wright) because she married a Jew. Except for the sense of mortality that makes every dying old man a portent of what lies in store for all humanity, there is no particular reason for anyone to care about this father. But Holbrook wants to love him, and tries...
...quick to note the names of such important gentile members as Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, James Baldwin, and such "kissing cousins" as Robert Lowell and Ralph Ellison, Podhoretz insists that "the term 'Jewish' can be allowed to stand by clear majority rule and by various peculiarities of temper." The term family, he says, derives from "the fact that these were people who by virtue of their tastes, ideas and general concerns found themselves stuck with one another against the rest of the world whether they like it or not (and most did not), preoccupied with one another...
...artfully professional new repertory group has now joined the U.S. theater: the Negro Ensemble Company. Supple in motion, stoic in grief, satiric in temper, the all-Negro cast (five men, four women) turns Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, an atrabilious Peter Weiss tract on the evils of Portuguese colonialism, into a mimetic dance of pain, fury, death and anticipatory joy. For a troupe in its infancy, opening night at Manhattan's St. Mark's Playhouse off Broadway marked a large stride toward the dream of Co-Founder Robert Hooks (Hallelujah, Baby!): "If in ten years we can compete...
...NICB forum, which has been unusually accurate in 22 years of such forecasts, warns that three factors temper optimism about 1968. One is the fact that it is a presidential election year, when the economy often holds up its growth temporarily to await the outcome of the voting. Another is the federal surtax, which the panel expects to come and which will affect both profits and personal spending. The most difficult factor to gauge is defense spending, which is due to rise during the year about $7 billion to $80 billion. Were peace to be negotiated in Viet...