Word: temperedness
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Sir: Any future impatience with your editorial policy will be tempered by my remembering your respectful gesture to T. H. White [Jan. 24]. Thank you for writing so well of one who wrote so well. And thank you for placing him where he truly belonged: The World. ALLISON HILL ROULSTON...
But his historical background is harmful, as well as helpful, to his book. Rowse is accustomed to working with facts, and even when working with non-factual questions he is used to writing bluntly and without qualification. He makes no attempt to conceal his hatred of the Puritans, for instance...
Partly on that basis, but mostly at the urging of Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell, Lyndon was elected Democratic floor leader in 1953. As leader of the Senate he often put in 18-hour days, and, at 6 ft. 3 in. and 200 Ibs., seemed as hale and...
Accompanied by a burly, beetle-browed "manager," the group has had little chance to fraternize with Americans. But as they push on toward Chicago, Laramie and points west, they can be sure to find friendly ears anxious to hear their taut, well-tempered sound.
Luckily, the new Mexican Minister of Education, Jose Vasconcelos, was of like mind; he provided Diego with plenty of public walls. Squatting on a scaffold that sagged perilously under his enormous bulk, a cigar clamped between his teeth, Diego painted exuberantly from dawn to dusk. His only diversion was the...