Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pockets of resistance, notably Mansfield, remained opposed to the proposal. "Any attempt to introduce any other factor" besides merit into tenure decisions. Mansfield says, "will quickly take us into trouble. Tenure decisions are always hard--the temptation to temper justice with charity is always there and must be fought against constantly." Considerations like potential contribution to the University community should not affect the decisions, be argues, saying that the use of such criteria "would be like choosing the Boston Celties for what they can contribute to race relations in Boston...
Assassination is not the American disease. Our sickness is our love affair with guns as final arbiters of self-defense, temper tantrums, family disputes and manhood. Equating human needs with gun ownership tells the story of our retreat from civilized behavior...
...guided 15 major laws to enactment, delivered ten speeches, held press conferences and Cabinet meetings twice a week, conducted talks with foreign heads of state, sponsored an international conference, made all the major decisions in domestic and foreign policy, and never displayed fright or panic and rarely even bad temper...
...attention and inspire cooperation. The 100th-day ritual is not without some logic. It is a reasonable time to take stock of the start, but it is an uncertain guide to a President's success. John Kennedy's 100 days were unrelieved disaster and hesitation, and his temper suffered accordingly: "I'm going to give this damned job to Nixon," he once said. It took Lyndon Johnson a year to spawn the Great Society, Richard Nixon three years to engineer the opening to China...
...running show is Lady Diana, who entered as an ingénue and was already a star before she got to the footlights. She not only stood up well to the glare, she turned it to good advantage. Hounded by an anxious press, she usually managed to hold her temper and fix her smile. "I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them," she told Charles with a level coolness that seemed to be much older than 19. "I simply treat the press as though they were children...