Word: temperers
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...Kathryn Altman, whom he married 32 years ago), he is not always Mr. Mellow. When he thinks a crew member has screwed up or an executive has done him wrong, his anger can be ferocious. Volcanic is the word that two former colleagues use to describe his temper. "It's something to behold," says Trudeau...
...idolized country sapmasters like Dan Fogelberg, but not for him the doe-eyed, achingly sincere delivery of that stereotypical singer- songwriter. Brooks pulverizes his songs in performance, putting each one across as if it were Born to Run. He has the brass of Billy Joel but a sweetness of temper that keeps him on the south side of overbearing. All that, and a beaver felt Stetson (size 7 5/8) that makes him look dorky. Deliberately, one assumes...
...optimistic, progress-obsessed U.S., the fin de siecle had a different tone and temper. The new century seemed to be the new frontier, and predictions about what it would bring were rampant. Many were accurate, from airplanes to television to freeways to disposable bottles. There were some howlers as well, including the forecast that autos would make streets as quiet as country lanes, that there would be no trees left in America by 1920, and that by the end of the 20th century, blacks would constitute about two-thirds of the U.S. population...
...weak national economy also resulted in a decline in the amount of gifts received by Harvard and increased pressure on the University to temper tuition hikes, the report said...
...fundamental temper of America tends toward an existential ideal that can probably never be reached but can never be discarded: equal rights to variety, to construct your life as you see fit, to choose your traveling companions. It has always been a heterogeneous country, and its cohesion, whatever cohesion it has, can only be based on mutual respect. There never was a core America in which everyone looked the same, spoke the same language, worshipped the same gods and believed the same things...