Word: temperedness
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The students faced interrogations from their district committees on Saturday, fielding questions such as, "What's a well-tempered clavier?" "What would you do as ambassador to Nicaragua?" and "If I told you there were a million pink elephants under your chair, how would you prove me wrong?"
It is one measure of how much the world has changed that Russians, who were masters of the Baltic republics for 50 years, now complain bitterly of discrimination at the hands of the new governments. In Latvia and Estonia, where Russians make up sizable minorities, the debate over where and...
GEORGE BUSH WAS SHAPED AND TEMPERED BY HIS mother's nature. His was a soul finally formed by strata of love and discipline relentlessly laid down. Bush was lucky, so very lucky, to be rooted in a woman like Dorothy Walker Bush, who died last week at 91. But her...
". . . the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace . . ." -- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
Film-maker Marlon Riggs' and writer Ron Simmons' contribution, entitled "Sexuality, Television and Death: A Black Gay Dialogue on Malcolm X" draws similarly surprising conclusions from Malcolm's ideas. In a subtle discussion, Riggs' and Simmons' pride in Malcolm is tempered by a disappointment in his celebration of a rigid...