Word: temperedness
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Convinced that good research starts at the bedside rather than in the laboratory, Good opted for pediatrics because it would give him an opportunity to study immune system defects, which are most often found in children (victims usually die of disease well before adulthood). "Besides," says Good, who admits that...
ONE REPORT FROM MIAMI Beach following the Democratic Convention last summer portrayed the November election as a test of tempered idealism versus hardshell realism. Richard Nixon won the election. Tempered idealism was lost in the shuffle.
Indeed, any tempered idealists who envision 1976 as a broad-based rejection of Nixon-Republican realism had better consider the groundwork being done on all levels by Republicans before reassuring themselves that the mandate of 1972 cannot be foisted upon the American people again four years hence.
When does a pastime become a life-sustaining passion? For Yachtsman Cornelius ("Kees") Bruynzeel, a Dutch timber tycoon, it began when he set his first sail at age five. Now, at 73, Bruynzeel still has an acute case of sea fever. But it is tempered by a serious heart condition...
Lyndon was dead. Not the President. Not Lyndon Baines Johnson. Just Lyndon. Sadness was there, of course, but there was, too, the pride in having tempered this man. There was also the understanding that comes from living in a land where everything rises from nature, flourishes and then is taken...