Word: temperedness
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Rarely had the men of the NBC Symphony seen their little Maestro in such high humor and fine fettle. Pink-cheeked and glowing after his vacation in Italy, the terrible-tempered 81-year-old had kind words or a joke for everyone at rehearsal. The Maestro had his one inevitable...
About ten years ago someone on the RKO lot got a kittenish leopard as a gift. Leopards must have been big box office at the time because no one could wait until they had made a funny-type picture with this jovial cat and Katherine Hepburn. The result has recently...
"History," Taylor concludes, "has often seen these phenomena of nations turning to the arts in their prosperity . . . We in the United States, too, are now seeing this same development take place. It is a form of intellectual compensation or atonement for dominating the world at a given period-tempered perhaps...
As in all of Santayana's philosophy ("My system is not mine, nor new") pragmatism, naturalism, hedonism and materialism leap into the philosophical arena flashing beautifully tempered verbal weapons, gracefully swipe at each other with sardonic wit and brilliant exposition-until all fall back exhausted by their civilized exhibitionism...
Terrible-tempered Publisher Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, 69, who already owned six newspapers in five states,* bought the Odessa American, in partnership with 20 employees, for more than $200,000. Like the Chicago Tribune, whose editorials he reprints on days when his own spleen is small, Publisher Hoiles knows how to...