Word: tempering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whatever satisfaction I got from my own work, would not, from a wide perspective, be so useful as my "tagging" along, smoothing the corners and dealing with many details, small but necessary, which in my absence he has to tackle himself with consequent loss of patience and temper! . . . I am fortunate in having just enough humor to tide me over the worst situations and enough love of nature to find beauty and delight in the most unexpected places. And there are so many other things-people and books, music and pictures and, above all else, my own children...
...common misconception about Waugh holds that he was a liberal young man who turned into a middle-aged fogy. He was, given the temper of his times, a reactionary all along. The faintly scandalous success of the comic novels Decline and Fall (1928) and Vile Bodies (1930) made their author the most prominent spokesman for the Bright Young People of his generation. London newspapers offered fees for his thoughts on youth. He did not give them exactly what they expected. "I admire almost anything about old people," he wrote in 1930. Waugh, as it turned out, was not kidding about...
...cast-iron whimsy." Then, shortly after Frost's death in 1963 at age 88, his friend Lawrance Thompson began publishing a three-volume biography; inadvertently or not, it replaced the cracker-barrel sage with a monster. Thompson piled up a chronicle of "jealousies, obsessive resentments, sulking, displays of temper, nervous rages, and vindictive retaliations" that threatened to eclipse even Frost's jauntiest lyrics...
...second story Singer read. "A Piece Of Advice," was a more serious and religious piece that featured a man trying to control his wild temper. The man learned from a Hasidic holy man to flatter even those people he really wanted to insult...
While the campaign has been waged almost exclusively over the television airwaves for the last 18 months, both men have hit the hustings for the home stretch. Helms, a tall and grandfatherly Southern gentleman with a quick temper, tours the state in "Avocado One," a green and white recreational vehicle...