Word: temperedness
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The book poignantly captures the disjointed lives of the volatile black youths -their periodic fits of rage, their more normal sullenness, their fierce loyalty to one another. Just as absorbing is the anguish and frustration of their parents, their fury at the police and the courts, tempered by the knowledge...
Sir: Humphrey's giddy "happy" politics is superficial and disgusting. Eugene McCarthy's attempt is gallant but impractical. Kennedy seems to be the only Democratic candidate who has heard the nation's heartbeat, eloquently expressed its melancholy, and injected a note of hope tempered with pragmatic realism...
THEY pronounce his boyish name with fear and derision or else with adoration and awe. To many enemies, he is more his father's son than his brother's brother. Indeed, it was old Joe himself who observed, "He hates just like I do." By this reckoning, Robert Kennedy is...
Everywhere, however, his latest batch of recordings-five, all told-were pouring forth like gabby world travelers, which indeed they are. Four years after his withdrawal from public concert life, Pianist Gould is still pursuing one of the most remarkable careers in recording history. First, there is his initial installment...
Conspiracies. His talk was also tough, if somewhat more tempered, on civil disorders. Both directly and by implication, he disputed the President's riot-commission findings. "A major deficiency" of the report, he said, is its "tendency to lay the blame for the riots on everyone except the rioters...