Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-city concert tour. Soprano Maria Callas, 38, was guilty of not one prima donnybrook, seemed to be newly tranquilized. Though an eye inflammation bedded her down for a day in a Bonn hospital, she gamely went on with the show the next evening, restrained her storied temper even when flashbulbs popped during performances. Cooed her concert agent: "Maria has changed completely. She is a charming, amiable, friendly woman...
...doing a slow burn while Pentagon leaders under Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy refused to use money voted by Congress for specific projects. Examples: construction of a Navy supercarrier in 1949; ordering additional Air Force B-525 in 1961. Last week Uncle Carl finally lost his temper over the issue of how much control Congress should have over the executive branch in determining policy. "It is eminently clear," he wrote in a stinging committee report, "that the role of the Congress in determining national policy, defense or otherwise, has deteriorated over the years." At issue...
...Russia-a prizewinner at the 1958 competition won by Van Cliburn, followed by two generously acclaimed tours in 1959 and 1961. In his second album (recorded in Moscow), Los Angeles-born Pianist Pollack dips into Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, shows a ringing tone, a fleet touch, and a natural temper for the romantics. At 27, one of the most gifted-and least appreciated-talents around...
Unlike today's diminished royalty, the dynasty still retains vast power, but reticence and bourgeois practicality temper the imperial wealth. The Rothschilds are rarely glimpsed these days, and outsiders are left to speculate that the legend may at last have become larger than life...
Szell came to the Cleveland Orchestra in 1946, renowned as a greatly gifted Wagnerian conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and as a man with a monumental temper (his Met career ended when he walked out in midseason after a dispute with General Manager Rudolf Bing). As a hedge against the possibility of stirring up any such disputes in the Cleveland, Szell demanded and received assurance that the board would give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." The board provided the means, and Budapest-born George Szell, a World War II immigrant to the U.S., created...