Word: temperedness
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In the past few months, Zhirinovsky has tempered his message in an attempt to broaden his base of appeal. Specifically, the Liberal Democratic Party targets disgruntled military officers, the new commercial merchant class and the middle-aged, all of whom Communism left high and dry. Supposedly, Zhirinovsky's LDP has...
Fish plays the hot-tempered Ben with the explosiveness it requires. Unlike Zelman, however, he is not able to maintain the serious and earnest tone throughout his part. One reason for this is that his part calls on him to be the leader of the two of them. Ben reports...
Or take student concern about Harvard's Expository Writing program. Proclaimed an integral and vital part of each undergraduate's education, Expos was, until recently, a department in turmoil--the victim of an intolerant and short-tempered director, Richard C. Marius, who verbally abused students and teachers on a regular...
In 1985 McCarthy brought out Blood Meridian, an apocalyptic epic, his Moby Dick, about a scalp hunter in the 1840s; to read it is to say goodbye to peace. Few did read it. McCarthy continued to live close to the bone in El Paso, a close-to-the-bone kind...
But what is realistic? French officials openly rejoice that the U.S. now backs the plan dividing Bosnia along ethnic lines. Fair enough: there would be no way of reconstructing a single Bosnia without helping the Muslims reconquer territory already taken by the Serbs, and that would mean a long ground...