Word: temperedness
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He came up with the idea of sculpture as something for the lightest air currents to change: arrays of delicately balanced wire arms with colored leaves and fins and fans on the end, orbiting eccentrically and never coming back to exactly the same position. They respond to your presence. They...
The conundrum of the man is that he did not seem savage at all. Before fleeing into the jungle in 1963, the French-educated son of prosperous landowners, born Saloth Sar, taught school in Phnom Penh, and his former students remember him as a soft-spoken, even-tempered man who...
In 1915 Ben-Gurion, expelled from Palestine for his nationalist and socialist activities, chose to go to New York City, where he hastily taught himself English and plunged head on into perpetrating the local Zionist-socialist movement. Yet his authoritative, almost despotic character and his enchantment with Lenin's revolution...
The Crimson are approaching the game with a confidence tempered with respect. The confidence comes from its recent four-game win streak, its terrific senior class, and the excellent play of sophomore goalie Keith Cynar, who has gotten hot just in time for his biggest test of the year.
Last week the Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Cards again, and this time the pennant--and the Dodgers' none-too-healthy 4 1/2-game lead--was at stake. The Cards were fighting back, late and hard. In the second inning, Jackie Robinson was spiked again--this time by trigger-tempered Catcher Joe...