Word: temperance
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HAMP. A sweet but Simple Simon gives in to panic at the front during World War I, and is punished by a military machine that cannot afford to temper steeliness with compassion. Robert Salvio gives a most sympathetic interpretation of Private...
When last week's polling began, there seemed a very good chance that the regime of Sir Albert Margai might indeed be voted down. The Prime Minister, whose hulking size and frequent outbursts of temper have won him the nickname "Akpata"-a Mende word that means "our wild fat man"-had long been accused of widespread corruption. His refusal to answer the charges did nothing to improve his government's image, nor did his longstanding attempts to establish a one-party state. Last month, Sir Albert opened the election campaign by refusing to allow opposition candidates...
Bitterness was the problem. Bargaining sessions produced only fits of temper. Negotiations were derailed at one critical point when the crusty publisher of the papers, Paul Block Jr., denounced the Newspaper Guild for taking scholarship money from the CIA. The only bright spot was a remarkably professional daily paper that the unions put out on a collection of antiquated presses; it reached a circulation of 80,-000 and was actually making money. Agreement, when it came, was a result less of bargaining than of mutual wearing-down. It reportedly provided for a two-year contract and a $21 raise...
...managed to keep aid appropriations at last year's level--$3.2 billion. The President shifted payments to Laos, Thailand and NATO to the military budget; and held out loans totalling more than $3 million to international organizations like the Asian Development Bank until he could judge more closely the temper of Congress. At the same time Johnson sought to make all unavoidable aid cuts before the bill reached the House floor. As aid specialist William S. Gaud crowed enthusiastically, this is a "tight . . . bikini-type budget...
Time has not been entirely kind to Measure for Measure. The modern temper finds more humor than honor in struggles to preserve chastity. Moreover, there is something unappealing about nearly every character in the play. Though it has a happy ending, Measure for Measure is not a happy play. It is one of those dramas in which humanity seemed to raise a stench in Shakespeare's nostrils...