Word: temperedness
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The audibly grumbling Deputies had their own ill-tempered answer for Bourgès' attitude: they voted 240 to 194 to make him Premier, installing him with fewer votes than Socialist Guy Mollet had in his favor in losing.
To the Casbah. Hot-tempered students and war veterans ordered a general protest strike. Roaming the city in small commando units, some on motor scooters with girl friends behind, they forced shopkeepers out of stores, stopped buses and trolleys, ordering passengers to descend, poured into post offices, telling employees to...
The chief concern of all the CHINCOM nations was the effect on U.S. public opinion of any seeming concession to Red China. Then the U.S. embassy in Taipei was sacked by a Nationalist Chinese mob. Reasoning that U.S. annoyance at Formosa would make U.S. reaction more even-tempered, Britain seized...
The rest of the issue is at the usual level: proficiency tempered by ennui. This seems all too natural in a magazine which insists on emphasizing the womb-like quality of undergraduate literature by referring to itself as "Mother Advocate."
Its hero, James Dixon, is a barely competent provincial instructor in medieval history who has no desire to be a gentleman; he wants merely to be a safe and smug academic bureaucrat. His character has not been tempered on the playing fields of Eton, and he is as proud of...