Word: temperance
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...explosion of the arms-laden freighter La Coubre in Havana Harbor, the vilification of the U.S. broke all bounds of diplomacy-and even of sanity. Yet once again, in a rapidly deteriorating situation that sees Cuban-American relations reach a new low each day, the U.S. held its temper...
...hand he has a magical, green-eyed charm, on the other a maniacal temper; in his furies he rips phones off the walls, and once in a TV station he hurled a chair through a glass control booth. Bergman can be stuffily bourgeois, particularly in business, and wildly bohemian, especially with women. His steamy affairs have long been the talk of Scandinavia, and he has been married four times.- Few women ever really recover from the Bergman experience, and his ex-wives have not remarried. ("Too tired," explains one.) But they remain his friends, as do his former mistresses, many...
...candidly admits to a stoical attitude: "I may be dying, but I certainly would never say anything about it." Her temper, too, is always under rigid control. "I never have tantrums," she says. "If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone." She is just as silent-in public-on the subject of politics. "I've always been a part of what's done," she explained to a pride of society-page lionesses in Detroit last week, "but ; silent partner." Underneath her carapace of reserve Pat Nixon carries...
...World War II flyer, sister of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Editor-Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.), sends his food over by messenger. His easy smile, his compact, 183-Ib. frame and close-cropped, curly hair help him when he wants to be charming-and his short-fused temper is almost legendary. "Pete wants to hear a clear and specific answer, or 'Yes,' 'No,' or 'Maybe,' " says one staffer. "God help anybody who starts to answer Quesada with a speech in explanation for having goofed off. His bawlings-out are fierce...
...rarefied and formidable. It ranged over more than half a dozen languages (German, French, Italian, English, Greek, Hebrew, Latin) and considerably more centuries. There was no pattern to his year's reading, but B.B. had a mind in which even fragments became touchstones of his aristocratic, rational, classicist temper. Sample reflections: ¶"I have always instinctively dreaded mysticism (although fascinated by it) as endangering the light of reason-a poor light, nearly always smoking, and often stinking, but yet all we have to let us go forward a few feet in a century." ¶I "Ahab [of Moby Dick...