Word: temperance
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What a pity it seems that thrasonical New York and CRIMSON critics who deserve to know better, should temper their reviews with ill-considered jobbery and snobbery which words add up not to the expression of a theatrical verite but an unsubstantiated vagueness of feeling as "good" and "bad" about a show which normative without elaboration do nothing to educate audiences theatre wise and leave playwright, actor and producer to work out his own salvation and wonder why one play succeeds so admirably while another falls so completely with the result that the stature of critic has reached...
...then, did people say, as did Shaw's chauffeur, "I would do anything for Mr. Shaw"? For one thing, Shaw at home was the most placid and modest of men. In 30 years, Miss Patch only saw him lose his temper twice. He seldom "contradicted any of us," and "of malice he was utterly incapable ... He could be kind," sums up the author in the most devastating remark of her book, "when he remembered you were there...
...Japanese were the only athletes who accepted all the judges' decisions without question. Once, when a Japanese basketball player lost his temper, his coach quickly took him out of the game...
Their only score came early in the week when Winston Churchill lost his temper when interrupted in debate by Defense
...either. The scripts, by Writer Frank Gabrielson, are often toughly realistic. Son Nels (Dick Van Patten), pushed too hard by family pride, is shown cheating in an exam for grades to impress his parents. Mama herself, expertly played by Actress Peggy Wood, is human enough to get in a temper just because she's having a bad day. Earnest, bumbling father Lars (Judson Laire), who often wears his head, as well as his heart, on his sleeve, can be as calamitously wrong in business as over an old sweetheart...