Word: temperedness
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The authors of Infallible Fallacies were shrewd enough to hide in anonymity. The Archbishop of Canterbury, not so shrewd, has publicly praised their ill-informed and ill-tempered attack on Catholicism; but this sort of indiscretion is not surprising from a man who three years ago praised Red China and...
The opening selection was programmed as Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor. Mr. Berman quickly informed his audience that it did not cone from the Well-tempered Clavier but was Liszt's arrangement of an organ work. The indicating this gave of Mr. Berman's inclinations in musical...
In his field, Demos has an interesting position among modern philosophers. It is not a coincidence that his lectures on Plato seem to bring out much of the lecturer's own philosophy. Ideologically he is a Christian Platonist, and by this philosophical belief he has become the foremost authority on...
Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, hand-picked Sultan of Morocco, docilely performed an unpleasant duty which his unruly old predecessor had resisted for years. He signed a dahir (decree), dictated by the French, which transferred some of the royal powers to a half-Moorish, half-French administrative council. The dahir...
* Hoot Mon's forebear was Hambletonian X, ancestor of almost every modern U.S. trotter and pacer. In 24 seasons, he got 1,331 foals, bringing nearly $200,000 in stud fees to his owner, a onetime farm hand named William Rysdyk, who bought him for $125. Hambletonian (after whom...