Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artfully professional new repertory group has now joined the U.S. theater: the Negro Ensemble Company. Supple in motion, stoic in grief, satiric in temper, the all-Negro cast (five men, four women) turns Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, an atrabilious Peter Weiss tract on the evils of Portuguese colonialism, into a mimetic dance of pain, fury, death and anticipatory joy. For a troupe in its infancy, opening night at Manhattan's St. Mark's Playhouse off Broadway marked a large stride toward the dream of Co-Founder Robert Hooks (Hallelujah, Baby!): "If in ten years we can compete...
...NICB forum, which has been unusually accurate in 22 years of such forecasts, warns that three factors temper optimism about 1968. One is the fact that it is a presidential election year, when the economy often holds up its growth temporarily to await the outcome of the voting. Another is the federal surtax, which the panel expects to come and which will affect both profits and personal spending. The most difficult factor to gauge is defense spending, which is due to rise during the year about $7 billion to $80 billion. Were peace to be negotiated in Viet...
...demonologists, Sparrow marks them thus: ^ Joachim Joesten (Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy): "Mr. Joesten's story (that there were two conspiracies, one to kill the President, the other to kill Governor John B. Connally of Texas) is extravagant and incredible, his book a compound of bad English, bad temper and bad taste...
ZERALDA'S OGRE by Tomi Ungerer (Harper & Row; $3.95). This lonely ogre has sharp teeth, a big nose, a bad temper and he sometimes eats little children for breakfast that is, until he meets Zeralda, who is such a good cook that he swiftly switches to pompano, roast chicken and other goodies. Though it may sound scary to adults, it is the kind of story that is invariably amusing to children and the youngsters will love the menacing drawings. Also recommended: Ungerer's Moon Man, a story of the man in the moon's brief visit to earth...
...their pursuit of multinational activities, Peterson added, U.S. businessmen must learn to "temper the typical American goal to be first and biggest. Our effort must be to help expand the market for the benefit of all and to be content with one slice of an ever-growing...