Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite those sharp expressions of concern, the Reagan Administration was at pains last week to show that it was still trying to hold its temper. At a meeting of the Organization of American States on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Haig said that the U.S. "is prepared to join others in doing whatever is prudent and necessary to prevent any country in Central America from becoming the platform of terror and war." As Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann listened gravely, Haig added that "if Nicaragua addresses our concerns about interventionism and militarization . . . we do not close...
...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...
...mystery of the personal outbursts that have so clouded his better nature is unsolved. A television reporter tried to find out if Haig took drugs after his heart surgery, believing that they might have triggered his ill-temper. Haig's friends have practiced amateur psychology but come up empty. The answer may lie in the Secretary's fierce belief that he is engaged in a battle, of sorts, and that only audacity will preserve his authority, both around the White House and abroad. His is a high-risk venture. He could be fired tomorrow. But if he wins...
...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...
...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...