Word: temperately
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...much attention must be paid to fears of backlash or martyrdom? For the sake of the public temper, how universally approved must any major political decision be? The questions matter because the well-being of society depends on more than democracy's numbers and nose counts...
Bobby Dupea, strangled by a sense of his own failed talent, allowed Nicholson not only to turn on his own bursting temper, but to flash the charm that has its greatest single emblem in his smile, which seems to be cordially unsettling and made mostly of radium. David Staebler, on the other hand, required Nicholson to master a more dour, slippery confessional mode, to hide his character's feelings from himself under a barrage of autobiographical patchwork. Nicholson was equal to the task. It is his most daring performance, and one of his favorites...
There are at least two women, however, whom Nicholson counts among his closest friends, and who come as near to having his number as anyone can. One is the reclusive Carol Eastman, who witnessed a Nicholson temper outburst vented against a snooty waitress in a restaurant. "You say one word," Nicholson warned the waitress, "and I'll kick in your pastry cart." Eastman remembered the scene and adapted it years later in her Five Easy Pieces screenplay, in which Nicholson throws a famous fit over an order of wheat toast...
...gains in the area, have so far not wrecked Kissinger's settlement, with its enhancement of the American position. They are not happy with the rise in American influence-"All we ever got from the Arabs was a cholera epidemic," jokes one Russian official-but they are keeping their temper in check. Says an Israeli analyst: "Everything would change if Brezhnev were to fall and anti-détente forces took over in Moscow. The Russians would then immediately try to get rid of Sadat and possibly [Syrian President Hafez] Assad...
...spring 1971 George Putnam '49 was chairman of the Overseers' special study group that proposed the Committee on University Financial Policy, a move designed to temper some of the tremendous power Treasurer George F. Bennett '33 had built up in Harvard financial affairs. Putnam cited a report on Harvard's finances prepared by the University Committee on Governance as expressing the views of his study group...