Word: temperedness
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For Jimmy Carter, these were indeed the times that try men's souls. For weeks he had been striding angrily around the White House, frustrated over his inability to free the 50 American hostages in Tehran and outraged over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He had been uncharacteristically short-tempered...
Soames does not ignore the dangers that still threaten the elections. Says he: "This is not going to be an election without intimidation. Intimidation Son is an endemic feature of African elections almost anywhere My main fear is of too much intimidation and even violence. I have always said that...
Mastroianni is one of the few actors who can play weakness and retain an audience's sympathy, mostly because of his ability to make sweet-tempered comedic comments on male vulnerability. Kinski is simply ravishing, genuinely sexy and high-spirited without being painfully aggressive about it. The result is...
If the 1960s was a decade i which new forces were unleashed in American politics and society, the 1970s was one in which those forces were regularized and institutionalized. Perhaps the 1980s will be a decade in which some of those forces will be tempered and reconsidered.
Moon, who could also be wonderfully benign and sweet-tempered, a sort of rock-'n'-roll Shakespearean fool, commanded perhaps the greatest affection from the audience. He was also dosing himself for disaster, and he began to undermine the group. During an American tour in 1975, he failed to show...