Word: temperedness
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Merchants in pursuit of profits have sailed Whitefish and Superior since the French fur traders' time, 3½ centuries ago. But for most of that time-until seven years ago, in fact-the ice blocked even the biggest ore boats from January to April. The 35-year-old Mac...
The glossy promotional hype surrounding the Boston Globe Jazz Festival has all but ignored the Festival's "Tribute to Bird, Coltrane and Mingus" concert this evening at Emmanuel Church. The program features pianistbandleader Jaki Byard, who must by this time be accustomed to such oversights. Byard's regular Wednesday night...
AS CAREFULLY AS HE has molded Ellello*u out of fiery words and fanatic ideas, Updike has created a supporting cast of splendid variety. Ellello*u's foppish political opponents, his wispy and wisely degenerate king, his seductive and bitchy and monstrous wives, all create an atmosphere of debauched craziness...
And it is worth considering how a seemingly pedestrian, and certainly non-artistic, purpose--giving unemployed people a job--fit into the results of the Project. Perhaps this explosion of creativity, and the Big Names that came out of it, had something to do with the way the basic need...
*The Four Hundred took their name from the dictum of the foppish writer Ward McAllister, who claimed in 1888 that there were only about 400 people in fashionable New York society who were at ease in a ballroom. Often tempered by a disarming folksiness. When a Yankee visitor, on meeting...