Word: temperedness
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As it turns out, Haruf wasn't done with the little town of Holt and its striving, melancholy folk. His new novel, Eventide (Knopf; 300 pages), picks up their stories about 18 months later and follows them through an eventful autumn, winter and spring. The old bachelor McPheron brothers, Harold...
Leven’s love for entertainment and theater blossomed during his undergraduate years at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md., but his ambitions were tempered by the realities of show business prospects and his love for psychology. Setting his theatrical aspirations aside, he arrived at Harvard...
Unfortunately, he found the allure of academia tempered by the realities of life—with four children and a wife also pursuing a graduate education in psychiatry, the economic burdens upon him began to mount. Ironically, he would find financial salvation in the very arena he had abandoned because...
The constant melancholy of the film—ironically tempered only by lively and high-spirited interviews with Dominique himself, forever employing flamboyant gesticulations and smoking a pipe—allows for little surprise when the final tragedy of Dominique’s own death appear in full brutality on...
The interplay between the two songwriters has always been integral to Sebadoh. Their three great albums—III, Bakesale and Harmacy—have always featured an even distribution of songwriting credits between the two, and Lowenstein’s vitriol is constantly tempered by Barlow’s...