Word: tempered
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...youngest brother Eddie, the current flash of Springs Valley High, resembles him too. "The same mannerisms, the same temper--no, temperament," says Coach Gary Holland, whose first year at Springs Valley was Larry's last. "I was getting on Eddie the other day, and he was so upset he decided to put one in left-handed from the right side of the basket. We all just shook our heads." Last month, when the N.B.A. All-Stars were weekending in Indianapolis, Bird returned to the Springs Valley gymnasium, where his mural looks down like a chapel Madonna. He recollects, "I hadn...
...letter. He is not urging Black's to become something they are not; on the contrary, the Doctor is adamantly against both assimilation and the abandonment of one's social responsibility. He leaves it to the discretion of the student as to how much he or she should "temper" his or her parochial givens with cosmopolitan interactions...
...late 20th century loves "hot" romantics and geniuses with a curse on them. Caravaggio's short life and shorter temper fit this bill. He died of a fever in 1610 at 39 in Porto Ercole, then a malarial Spanish enclave on the coast north of Rome. The last four years of his life were one long paranoiac flight from police and assassins; on the run, working under pressure, he left magnificently realized, death-haunted altarpieces in Mediterranean seaports from Naples to Valletta to Palermo. He killed one man with a dagger in the groin during a ball game in Rome...
Students will, of course, vary in the degree to which any given student will temper his or her parochial givens with cosmopolitan interactions. Some prefer a foot in parochial moorings while trekking Harvard's cosmopolitan cross-roads, which explains the existence of a Church of the Latter-Day-Saints on Brattle Street for Harvard's Mormon students and a Hillel House on Mt. Auburn St. for Harvard's Jewish students. But Black students must recognize that such preference for parochial moorings are not rights--requiring inputs by the wider college community for their enjoyment. Thus Mormon and Jewish students wishing...
...effort to allay their critics' concerns, the Guide's editors recently agreed for next year's book to preface articles with professors' statements of their course objectives. They also agreed to condense their commentaries and temper their remarks...