Word: temperedness
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THE steady withdrawal of U.S. troops from Southeast Asia has been a source of rising cheer at home. In many non-Communist Asian countries few such cheers can be heard. The satisfaction of seeing Yankee go home is tempered by a pain in the pocketbook.
Nixon cited as the major accomplishment of his administration that "we are now seeing the end of America's combat role" in South Vietnam. But he said that his success in office has been tempered by "the tragedies of Kent State, Jackson State and the University of Wisconsin." He predicted...
Cigarette smoking may indeed be hazardous to health, as that little sign on each packet warns. Quitting can be equally risky. TIME Writer Bob McCabe, a three-pack-a-day smoker, suffered through a 13-day Caribbean "Stop-Smoking Cruise" that ended last week. His ill-tempered report:
For Wolfe, the atmosphere was redolent of Radical Chic, the social posturing he himself was about to immortalize. Radical Chic, he writes, "invariably favors radicals who seem primitive, exotic, and romantic, such as the grape workers, who are not merely radical and 'of the soil' but also Latin; the Panthers...
It is difficult to generalize about any group of eight people in what is so often facilely called "the movement." Several things are clearly shared by all eight on trial in Federal Court here: a serious commitment to change, both in their personal styles of living and in the American...