Word: temperedness
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"Embroideries" depicts Satrapi and a klatch of her female friends and relatives engaged in an after-dinner bull session. The men, naturally, have all gone off to take a nap while the women clean up and settle down to tea. The place is Iran and the time is 1991, when...
Below all, Seagrave's bright irreverence in portraying Sun Yat-sen as a character from opera bouffe and Chiang as an "ill-tempered bravo" almost contradicts the charges of Machiavellian villainy he wishes to press. The Soong Dynasty brings much pungent material to light; in the end, however, it works...
Brennan's advanced age (he will be 80 next April) has not tempered that enthusiasm. In the late '70s he suffered visibly while his first wife was losing a struggle with cancer. But he has been renewed by his 1983 marriage to his longtime secretary. In a May speech, reacting...
DIED. Leslie C. Arends, 89, staunchly conservative Republican Congressman from the farm country of central Illinois for 40 years, the past 31 (1943-74) as whip, or deputy party leader, of the G.O.P.; in Naples, Fla. Arends was an unsung but consummate parliamentary tactician who could be counted on to...
Once there, according to Lannon, experience simply kicked in and tempered any negative thoughts.