Word: temperedness
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In a post-referendum speech, Papadopoulos made it plain he was in no hurry to surrender power. He reiterated the junta's favorite theme that the "goals of the revolution" must be carried out. By that, the former colonels mean that they want to purify Greek political life, immunizing...
One of the Tommies under his command is hot-tempered, brawling Gunner Danny O'Rourke, who defies ennui not with ambition but with fury. Nicol Williamson portrays O'Rourke as a sardonic, 20th century Ahab, ever raging against a malevolent creation. He sees barracks boredom as proof that...
In a sense, I have been ever since trying to reconcile the contrary influences of Laski and Babbitt. Towards that reconciliation--which would no doubt be unsatisfactory to both men--I have been greatly helped by my friendship with the late Lawrence Henderson. Briefly, my earlier optimistic rationalism has been...
Daltrey swivels and kicks one foot up-and-out from his slippery hips, churning arms, sings into the mike. "I'M a substitute for another guy/I LOOK pretty young but I'm just backdated yeahhhh" Incredibly, he begins to swing the mike round and round on the end of the...
Shaw took care that his Christians were not carbon copies of each other. As he commented, "All my articulate Christians have different enthusiasms." And in the case of Ferrovius he allowed a would-be martyr to fail at the moment of trial by committing wholesale slaughter. In a striking change...