Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, President Roosevelt's representative at the Brussels Conference (TIME, Nov. 22 et ante), stood deserted last week by the chief delegates of Britain, France and Russia. They had returned to their capitals, leaving second-stringers at Brussels, and leaving Ambassador Davis to keep his temper while the windup of the conference gave the Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opportunity to say that Rome "has deemed this conference entirely superfluous from the very beginning and has had no reason since to change its mind...
Last week Photographer Price, on the theory that if reporters can handle cameras, photographers can manage typewriters, published his second book,* dedicated to the instruction of the "lads of the country whose goal is the camera staff of a newspaper." Fellow photographers could temper their hostility by reading Jack Price's ecstatic picture of a news cameraman...
...Heine's works, adopts in general the Freudian view, fills it out with consistent sympathy and understanding. If he errs in ascribing a more-than-probable importance to a bit of blighted calf love, skims perhaps too lightly over episodes in which the poet's sharp temper led him into really unsavory actions, these must be taken as no more than traces of that basic partisanship which every good biographer must have. Heinrich Heine-of which one volume contains the Life, and the other the translated Poems-ranks as the definitive biography of Heine in English...
...McCarthy indicated that sterilization at Beloit under Lulu Coyner was roughly the equivalent of a slap on the wrist at more conventional finishing schools; that school records showed one girl was sterilized because she had a bad temper, others because they were "incorrigible," "obstreperous" or partial to "fights;" that parents' pleas seldom influenced Lulu Coyner's and the board's decisions to incapacitate almost one half of her charges for childbirth...
...both failures. To most readers Death in the Afternoon (1932) was an impossibly verbose testimonial to the author's enthusiasm for the spectacle of bullfighting. Green Hills of Africa (1935) was an exhaustive and exhausting account of a month's big-game shooting, marred by the ill-temper of its gibing digressions on critics and fellow writers. The first had been letdown enough, but in the second it seemed that Hemingway had definitely given over his precise eloquence to ignoble uses-that, carried away by his peculiar gifts, he had turned from the deeper study of the human...