Word: temperedness
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And then there was Johnson, schooled in the tangles of Texas politics, tutored by Master Plotter Franklin Roosevelt, tempered in the Senate's school of the deal, and ultimately a man who believed that there were no accidents in politics, only conspiracies. He armored himself with intimate knowledge of...
Parker, however, lacks George Higgins' obsession with the city and uses his local details more sparingly. He works a more middle-class milieu; the reader gets to know suburbs like Lynnfield and Marblehead too. He is also careful to keep his echoes just that. Spenser is not Marlowe or...
The Kallingers' neighbors are divided in their opinion of the family. Some neighbors find the Kallinger boys roughnecks who are too often truant from school, and their father a sour-tempered man given to the brandishing of a gun during neighborhood disputes. Others describe Kallinger as an expert cobbler...
Despite widespread optimism that a way had been found at least to persuade the I.R.A. to extend last week's deadline, perhaps indefinitely, the Provisionals' bitter rejection of the truce re-emphasized the basic problems of the conflict itself. Neither the British government nor the I.R.A. ever seemed...
Quite a few photographs span the walls, while one set, by Bob Beusman, zig-zags across a table; Beusman calls it "Thirty-three Kodak Cuties Say Buy Me!", but there are only twenty-four. Bob Ely's pictures, in tempered grays, are slices from a Midwestern wasteland. He has fixed...