Word: temperedness
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By & large, Italians conducted democracy's most vital business, in a holiday spirit tempered by dignity and humor. In Milan, Contessa Castelbarco, Toscanini's eldest daughter Wally (see Music), was the first voter at her polling place in a schoolroom. The lone Communist member of the election board...
The Hindu Pose shows how Matisse synthesized East & West, new & old. The painting makes a flat pattern, but it can easily be read as a design-in-depth; Matisse saw no reason to unlearn all he knew about putting form and space into a picture. It reflects his infatuation with...
Since he came back to Washington, Lovett has even wrung some words of praise from New York's terrible-tempered Congressman John Taber, the brass-lunged dragon of Capitol Hill. Said Taber: "He makes sense. Understands fifth-grade arithmetic. Very rare in Washington."
What with rubbing shoulders with "haunts," paranoiacs, enraged students's wives, and bad-tempered landlords, the 33 Law School honor students who compose the Legal Aid Society lead a "harrying but interesting" existence within their headquarters in Gannet House, according to President Walter M. Robinson 3L.
But most of these flaws are appropriate to the special Hellinger brands of friendliness, boyishness and sentimentality that pervade the picture. It would be hard to imagine a movie melodrama less cynical, less brutal and cheaply hardboiled, more essentially kindly and sweet-tempered. And it would be hard to beat...