Word: temperedness
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At Harvard, frustration over the issue has been vented in a more tempered way, taking the shape of a six-page report by the Minority Students Alliance. The work of students and faculty, the report offers a broad and damning critique of the University's efforts, or lack thereof, to...
"Satan is the focus of 'Paradise Lost'," he said. "Christ is a poetic disaster." Bloom also described Milton's God as a "catastrophe, an ill-tempered, sanctimonious bore who resembles Ronald Reagan."
On the tongue and on the ball, metal wood is the dumbest-sounding oxymoron since jumbo shrimp. But, like television journalist, its usage has proliferated beyond the inventors' dreams. Once lovingly crafted of tempered wood, the heads of drivers are going steel. If even Nicklaus is bonging these days instead...
Dole tried his own version of a broad appeal. Unlike Kemp and Robertson, he has the stature and maturity to be credible. But he based his claim on his personal conviction, bordering on obsession, that he is better equipped to run the country. His constant attempt to depict himself as...
There were no grand themes, no cutting issues, no electric enthusiasm for any candidate save Jackson and his over-the-rainbow dreams. Rather than a Democratic referendum, the Super Tuesday primaries turned out to be little more than a multiple-choice exam in which voters chose their favorite 30- second...