Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing better than Adlai Stevenson in 1956. One remarkable phenomenon, on either side, was the qualified enthusiasm. Papers that chose Nixon often did so out of dedi cation to conservative domestic policies more than to any heartwarming tributes to Nixon himself. Kennedy enthusiasts were just as apt to temper their praise with good words for Nixon's policies and his experience. A sampling...
...salaries of the editors who own it. But its news sources are among Paris' best, and it often manages to print as gossip what more serious journals dare not print as news, is closely watched by politicians and Cabinet ministers for its reflection of the country's temper (at least three copies are delivered each week to the President's Elyse Palace...
...Greek temper is erratic, the Greek tempo seduces Durrell with its essential timelessness. Sky, sea and air are the only absolutes, and full absolution; Durrell is convinced that the Greeks live "beyond good and evil." The only space that matters to them is the spot they occupy. Asked the distance to a neighboring town, a Corfiote villager would reply with the number of cigarettes smoked in transit. With the reminder that "Poverty is the Tenth Muse" of Greece, Durrell makes the inevitable attempt to define the national character: It "is based on the idea of the impoverished and downtrodden little...
Both were asked about the 27½% oil-depletion allowance, so dear to the hearts of Texas and Oklahoma oilmen. Kennedy was not opposing it and would restudy it after election; Nixon endorsed it wholeheartedly. Kennedy talked lightly about his inability to control Harry Truman's fiery public temper (see Democrats), but Nixon seized the occasion to declare fulsomely that President Eisenhower had restored dignity to the presidency ("I see mothers holding their babies up so that they can see a man who might be President of the United States"), and most newsmen were reminded of the Checkers speech...
...formalities. What lies them? The greeting sent by to the Prime Minister, its reference to "the historical of the complete collapse of the disgraceful system of colonialism," was harshly out of keeping with the general temper of the occasion, but neither for the present nor for the future is it wholly to be dismissed. If of the good will between Africans and Europeans, it is also a key fact that, at least for politically consicous Nigerians, resentment of colonialism and of any hint of racial, social, or political inferiority is the profound emotional driving force behind the demand for equality...