Word: temperance
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...before President Eisenhower's official State of the Union message. He had, with apparent meekness, given in to the demands of a little group of Senate Democratic liberals that he convene party conferences at their beck and call. He had even held onto his temper when one of the liberals, Tennessee's Albert Gore, urged that the power of appointing members of Senate Democratic policymaking committees be taken out of Johnson's hands. In fact, for a few fleeting, fanciful days, the dissident liberals thought that at long last they might even have Texan Johnson...
Kuosowa's camera is alert in picking up touches of humor which he finds in the villagers' expressive faces and in the posturing of the novice Samurai Kychukuibo, a frog-like fellow prone to temper fits and muscular ostentation. Certain exquisite shots give this modern film the formal organization of Japan's ancient art; without smothering the immediate drama, Kuosawa lets village tradition and the natural processes of harvest time, love, and old age give a sense of timelessness. The dignity and discipline of the samurai stand in eloquent contrast to the grotesque and the demonical animality of the bandits...
...into knots ("I do say this: I may have, but I am not saying I didn't, but I don't believe I have. I do say this ..."), he has been vastly successful in making himself understood. His warm grin is known around the earth, but in private his temper can flare with crackling, barracks-room fluency. He seems boundlessly friendly and outgiving, but White House insiders have long since grown used to having him pass in the halls without a nod or a word. He has seen and been seen by more crowds than any other...
After steaming into Manhattan to begin a U.S. concert tour, Britain's mellowing (80) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, accompanied by his 27-year-old bride of five months, showed further signs of gaining on the famed terrible temper that he once lost daily. He even waved a tiny U.S. flag, mustered an almost benign expression...
...Voice of America, Charles W. (for Wheeler) Thayer does not believe in lying diplomacy. In this urbane, witty and information-packed volume of shoptalk about the diplomatic life, West Pointer ('33) Thayer outlines his notion that diplomats ought to rely on patience, sound education, a controlled temper-and honesty. That, feels Thayer, is the basis of the West's diplomatic tradition, despite occasional blunders and deceits. But there is another diplomatic school, the Byzantine, and its deceitful and violent tradition survives forcefully in Soviet Russia...