Word: tempering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that in Italy just now, a man pre siding over a terrorist's case (which the judge is about to do) can get himself killed just for doing his job. The second (Michele Placido) is a factory worker, a militant trade unionist whose apparently congenital bad temper is not improved by the fact that his marriage has just been sundered. The third (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) is a teacher in a reformatory, a secular saint whose politics consists mainly of setting a good, if humble and anonymous, example for a world that is heedless of his like...
...appears reluctant to discuss his personal life, but eager to hold forth on his theories, straightforwardly but not pompously. Clarity, too, seems an Ely hallmark--even an analysis as complex as that of Democracy and Distant comes across clearly and colorfully in his hands, as Ely's occasional asides temper the book's serious analysis...
...that Vellucci has formalized his leadership of the council with his accession to the mayoralty, we urge him, in guiding the city through the obstacles ahead, to temper his decisions with the compassion which has served Cambridge residents so well in the past...
...making him an outsider twice removed while in Prague. And then there was his father. Hayman stresses Kafka's relationship with his father as the principal formative influence upon his character, suggesting that it subliminally provided the subject matter for much of his writing. Physically imposing, with a frightening temper that he vented very discriminately on his children and the Czech employees in his fancy-goods shop. Herman Kafka terrorized young Franz with threats, public humiliation and arbitrary commandments. Kafka's earliest memory was of being whisked out of bed one night and dumped outdoors--punishment for being thirsty. Whoever...
...would pose as the vastly experienced, endlessly patient statesman, determined to keep talking peace in the face of this latest temper tantrum by his American opposite number. Haig gave him just that opportunity...