Word: temperedness
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No matter what he thinks of himself as a creative talent, Sheed--like Jamison--considers criticism a secondary art. This is, at first, disappointing to seekers after fire and advocacy. It certainly must have disconcerted Dwight MacDonald followers when Sheed took over the Esquire film column, which Sheed held between...
The FDA, which set the new requirement to reduce eye injuries, was precise in its standards. The lenses will not be unbreakable or shatterproof, but they must be sufficiently tempered to withstand a specific shock-a steel ball weighing .56 oz. dropped from a height of 50 in. The optician...
Treading the Line. Given to dark vested suits and subdued maroon ties, Waldheim is the very model of a Continental diplomat. He is immensely skilled in treading the delicate line of Austrian neutrality, and is known as an unusually hard worker. He is also rather autocratic and hot-tempered, and...
Ayn Rand has been something of a terror to the American Right for 30 years. A short, thick-voiced, quick-tempered woman, she left Soviet Russia in 1923, made her way to California, found bit roles in movies, married, and began to teach herself to write. Driven by a distaste...
Harvard's 336th commencement is marred when the Science Center becomes unglued and topples into the glee club. George Wald, pretty much unglued himself, attempts to gain the stage in order to refuse an honorary degree, declaring "irrelevant and obfusticatory" the fact that he is not being offered one. Above...