Word: temperately
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...long-playing affair seemed to be getting to Allen. Usually calm and confident, he had begun to show flashes of temper. Small wonder: his career is now clearly on the line. For the time being, Reagan seems determined to make no further move until the Justice Department completes its inquiry. Says one top White House adviser: "The President is very concerned that he be fair to Allen." If Attorney General Smith recommends the appointment of a special prosecutor, Reagan might then ask Allen to resign, although on Sunday Allen said he would merely remain on leave should a special prosecutor...
...outgoing Presidents an important part of the history that has yet to happen is the future intellectual climate of the country and in particular the temper of the book-writing classes. History struck an extraordinary long-range blow at Andrew Jackson, President from 1829 to 1837, when in 1975 a Berkeley political scientist named Michael Rogin published a book Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. Rogin says he was writing under "the sway of the Viet Nam War." He sees Jackson as little more than a vicious Indian hater, "presiding over American expansion...
...character: Incensed by the Indians performing their sacred dances for the pleasure of the company. I awrence suddenly starts breaking dishes. While it is surely understandable that he does "not want to be part of a literary zoo," there is no reason he should so violently erupt into a temper-tantrum a twelve-year-old would be ashamed to call his own. Lawrence's lack of character development alternated with explosive, melodramatic scenes, make him seem more a psychopath than an artist...
...obligate him to go for them all. He enters with great dignity, immense and unthreatening grandfatherly, a solemn Buddha. His words seem to wigh as much as he does--they come out undifferentiated, as if he'd learned them phonetically (tough this is preferable to his occasional bursts of temper, when he speaks swiftly and unintelligibly). His vision of Eden in Karen Dotrice's ghoulishly starved, black-lipped Desdemona seems weirdly fatuous,even half-witted. Throughout, there's something private about his grief...
Losing one's temper at times, even unjustly, doesn't make a parent a monster. I'm not necessarily an admirer of Joan Crawford, but my sympathy lies with her for not being able to strike back at her accuser from the grave...