Word: temperedness
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A hapless Verona policeman once ticketed a misparked car belonging to hot-tempered Diva Maria Callas. His action touched off a string of unearthly trills and cadenzas. The soprano was fined for only a traffic violation, but Opera Manager Alberto Tantini was able to fix things with Police Chief Aldo...
U.S. administrations, beginning with the inflation-balance of payments crisis of the Kennedy Administration, have chosen to attempt the same currency stabilizing process by a subtler route: through a rising rate of wage taxation, while permitting free-floating collective bargaining, tempered with the social restraint of conditioned, "captured" labor movement...
"It's nonsense to talk about halting nuclear-energy production," said Joachim Joseph, a bearded German who works with the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency. Chiding the ecology-minded for naivete, he continued: "Let's remember that if we are to expect governments to spend money to prevent...
Cultural Carpetbagger. In his unique and cheerful way, Author Desani is a one-man tower of Babel, a cultural carpetbagger who hawks the flotsam and jetsam of at least five civilizations and three continents, with odd lots of Latin, Shakespeare and the Bible thrown in. His peculiar comic note derives...
More than anything, young Michael wanted to be an American, one of the crowd. But his parents were exiles not only from their own place but their own time. Father was witty and aloof, Mother imperious and ill-tempered. She had sought to escape her own protected past "into this...