Word: temperedness
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"Either accept my conditions or burn the score. I will prepare the fire, and I will personally put Falstaff and his stomach on the flames." So wrote fiery-tempered, 79-year-old Composer Giuseppe Verdi in a letter to his publisher in 1892. But Verdi, who had already received one...
Back in the 19303, Thomas Hart Benton boasted that his pictures-like those of his fellow Midwesterners Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry-were "illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so intended." Cocky, hot-tempered and unruly, Tom Benton talked loud and stood proud, and his fame was solid...
The sentence of death for Colonel Aref was tempered by a recommendation for clemency. But so deep were the implications of the case that six members of Kassem's Cabinet, including Brigadier Talib, resigned next day, to be replaced by three army officers and five civilians who are moderates...
MISSOURI'S CLARENCE CANNON, 79, has presided over the spending of more than a trillion dollars -exactly $1,040,597,183,594.75 -in his 18 years as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Homely (to an opponent who accused him of being two-faced, Cannon once replied: "My God, if...
These are not the questions of an Angry Young Man. They are "pebbles at the window" of complacency thrown by Thomas Griffith, 43, TIME'S Foreign Editor. Equable tempered, well wrought and carefully thought out, The Waist-High Culture is more inquiry than indictment, utters its qualms with conviction...