Word: temperedness
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To a prim, convent-educated London typist, Pierre-Joël Delaitre was all that a storybook French nobleman should be: tall, educated, tastefully dressed, charming, wealthy. To those who knew him better, he was also mean, hot-tempered, pampered, and a wastrel. Reared in luxury at the 18th century...
What London saw were 38 paintings as clean and clear as light mountain wine. Ghika's style is closest to cubism, but a cubism tempered and refined with a solid, realistic touch. On Ghika's canvas, Paris' chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town...
The Angry Council. There were no more genial Sunday teas on the lawn beneath the big trees of the rectory. Indeed, the rector put up a barbed-wire fence around his house. When he tried to sell not only the organ but the church's prized 13th century chalice...
A second big excursion is Westminster's Six Brandenburg Concertos (3 LPs), in which the London Baroque Ensemble gives a lively, bright performance. For listeners who enjoy a small ensemble, it is as good a recording as any on the market, although it ducks the real test: the usual...
When Lowell resigned in 1933 he left a curriculum which tempered Eliot's elective system with his own system of Concentration and Distribution. To President Conant was left the adaptation of this curriculum to the needs of the modern mid-twentieth century world. Conant's "General Education" plan, which replaced...