Word: tempering
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There has been little research on the problem, but apparently the highly intelligent reach full maturity later, and are not prepared to make final career decisions as soon as others. If any prognostication makes sense, it is that the rising intelligence of the undergraduate and the aristocratic temper of the college will militate against undergraduate science...
Simply denouncing the policies of the far right is not likely to temper its fanaticism, for it thrives on martyrdom-and is only too happy to add its critics to its list of subversives. If the members of the far right are to be wooed back into normal channels of political expression, politicians must patiently face the task of convincing them that at the present time the real danger to the nation lies from without, and that the way to fight that danger is to encourage unity at home and unflinching policies abroad that reflect the best interests...
...terms of smiles-per-hour. In fact, many of the jokes are soggy burps that might well have been planted in the script by a secret agent from Canada Dry. But many more, as usually happens in pictures written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. ("Izzy") Diamond, have edge and temper. Cagney's wife (Arlene Francis): "But she can't stay long. Doesn't school open soon?" Cagney: "In Georgia? You never know." Cagney's ten-year-old son, hopefully, when the boss's daughter has a fainting spell: "If she dies can I have...
...important, but I mean it wasn't too immediate. Finally, we started back on another nine, and I got another call. This one was by someone who didn't realize that I had had the thing. And by this time-I always had an uncertain temper-it had gotten completely out of control. One doctor said he had never seen me in such a state and that's the reason I had a heart attack. So I've never gotten angry again...
...tall, skinny, ginger-headed man afflicted all his life with a badly blotched complexion that set the seal on his ugliness. His physical unattractiveness made his youth lonely and affected his character and work. In this long and lovingly detailed biography, Critic Mark Schorer suggests that his volatile temper, his insatiable hunger for male companionship and female company, his manic alcoholism, his prankishness and exhibitionism, even his short and abortive acting career late in life, were the result of an emotionally starved childhood and adolescence. At a 1922 reunion dinner of his Yale class, Lewis said: "When...