Word: tempering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beneath his deceptively placid public persona, Lloyd Webber seethes with artistic temperament. In private, some of his acquaintances grumble about his explosive temper, but few dare to confront him, presumably because of his power and influence. While his first wife was still married to him, she was quoted as saying, "He never relaxes. He likes to have something to fuss about. He is exhausting to be with...
...indifference to most other subjects make him seem brusque and aloof. "Andrew is a very determined person, and he's very competitive," says his mother. "He has a one-track mind. He has a brisk manner and can be offhand. He has his difficult side -- he has a temper and terrific swings of mood...
...Soviets. Hammer tried to dissuade him but got nowhere, largely, he suspects, because Gorbachev had been put in a defensive mood by U.S. and other foreign criticism of his handling of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear-plant accident. Says Hammer: "Gorbachev's weakness is that he has a temper, and that he flares up, and that he has a lot of pride, of course, and self-confidence." The Soviet leader has generally managed to keep his temper under control in public. Indeed, friends and opponents agree that he is almost invariably polite. But he does blow up now and then -- especially...
Gorbachev as a young Komsomol official to help him buy a Volga sedan. Gorbachev obligingly used his influence to speed delivery. The poet promptly sold the car on the black market and returned to ask Gorbachev for help in buying another. Says Maximov: "Gorbachev did not usually lose his temper, but on that occasion he started shouting and threw the poet out of his office, ordering him never to show his face there again...
...does a candidate deal with erring subordinates? He may resort to temper tantrums or just an icy stare, but unless a would-be President is willing to assert discipline, he risks being governed by a staff that provides only grief for the chief...