Word: temperedness
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There is something else to consider: America may no longer be so enthralled by the freshness and energy of youth. There is a detectable distrust of brilliance not tempered or cooled by experience. The qualities that many Americans feel are most needed in a President today-historical perspective, intuition, patience...
Her organizational abilities were better appreciated on Broadway, where she produced A Streetcar Named Desire, among other plays. The New York stage chapters are perfunctory. Anecdotes, like Marlon Brando's fixing Tennessee Williams' plumbing, are sandwiched among routine theater business, tributes to friends and expressions of satisfaction. Missing...
These extravaganzas of DeMillean dimension have fallen into disfavor with cost-conscious designers and jaded audiences. The shows have been slightly scaled down, but are diminished only in dimension, not purpose. Their rhythm, far from stately, is a touch slower, just as the rate of stylistic change may generally have...
Thus, no matter who took the oath of office on the Capitol steps in January 1981, the prospects were bleak for progress in either strategic or intermediate-range arms control. But Reagan had an opportunity to turn the situation around. Americans, allies and Soviet leaders alike were fed up with...
There isn't much headroom for evolution. In an explanation that, ironically could be viewed as Marxist. Goldman contends that the authoritarian nature of the economic system dictates the political system's constraints. Even Soviet leaders are provided little space in which to maneuver or more accurately incentive to effect...