Word: tempering
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Although he is a masterly performer of Beethoven and Brahms. Stern, 41. is the only topflight violinist who regularly plays the modern masters-Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok, Berg. Each performance is a marriage of technique with the temper of the music. "I don't want to be known only as a violinist," Stern once said. "I want to be a player of music-one whose instrument just happens to be the violin." His ambition is snared by his peers...
After the conservative forces were resoundingly defeated in their efforts to temper the protest against the HUAC, Phillips retorted, "I think from the Conservative viewpoint the Congress was a success, because it shows the futility of working within...
...botch the British made of India. Perhaps now we shall understand Forster's book better. It talks about India, and blames the British for acting like gods; they were not big enough-and who is?-to rule another people. But it also enters a plea for tolerance, good temper, and sympathy-qualities which are not enough in this world, but still are something...
...membership of the Congress has not changed-and neither has its temper. That fact can only spell trouble for President Kennedy's domestic legislative program. "We look and we look," says a top Kennedy aide, "but it's hard to see much daylight anywhere...
...fight. "Provoked" by the Austrian Chancellor, Kurt von Schuschnigg. Hitler improvised the invasion of Austria almost overnight, as proved by the fact that 70% of the German transport broke down on the way. When Hitler ordered his generals to "smash" Czechoslovakia, it was merely a "momentary display of temper." The real culprits, Taylor implies, were the men foolhardy enough to stand up to Hitler. Poland's Foreign Minister Jozef Beck had such "great power arrogance" about his little nation that he tricked Britain into the foolish defense pact that started World...