Word: temperance
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...laws that should govern the circulation of money in a modern economy. After all, isn't money just the counterpart of goods delivered or services rendered? The amount of money in circulation should not depend on the chances of gold being found or even on the bad temper of Charles de Gaulle, but rather on the measurable requirements of a modern economy. That gold in Fort Knox is a most fantastic relic of an ancient age. Give all the gold to the French and let De Gaulle become another King Midas...
When he refused to hand out TVA patronage jobs to politicians or consult them on policy, he made an enemy of Tennessee's terrible-tempered Senator Kenneth McKellar. Haling Lilienthal before Congress as often as possible, McKellar drubbed him unmercifully. Lilienthal usually managed to keep his temper, though once he bearded McKellar after a hearing: "Senator, you are an old man and probably haven't much time to live. You are doing a fellow human being an injustice in your position toward me. You don't want to carry that on your soul when it comes your...
...Secondly, a playwright cannot afford to fall into his own foaming rage. To translate experience into art, he must achieve the same detachment from his own wounds that a surgeon would show. Finally, he must be leary of topical sensationalism. A playwright whose moving finger writes only of the temper of his times will find that all his passion will not bring back to life a single word he wrote, once the temper of that time has cooled...
...despite the district's poverty, many peasants do not want lower prices for the crops they sell to the cities. Besides, Madame Pandit fought a brilliant campaign. She curbed the arrogant Nehru temper, of which she has her full share, and conducted herself with a humility she had never displayed as India's aggressively "neutralist" ambassador to Washington and Moscow. On the hustings, she gestured toward her blue-rinsed grey hair, described herself as a daughter returning home in her old age, and asked plaintively: "If you fail to give me room, where can I go?" While...
While the play makes Maxime and his friends as mean-spirited as Bitos, it sides somewhat with the aristocrats. Those born to power may be corrupt, Anouilh seems to argue, but they know how to rule and they can dispassionately temper justice with mercy. But the arrivistes of power, the burning incorruptible zealots like Bitos-Robespierre, pursue justice so obsessively that they end up being savagely unjust. Anouilh masterfully unfolds the psychology of the revolutionary mentality, with its abstract love of "humanity" but contempt for individual men, together with the secret snobbery of the proletarian leader who greatly prizes...