Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take another to task for writing badly on the eve of our departure into the big, bad world which no doubt will be all too ready to berate us for ever writing at all. Fortunately, the Commencement issue of the Advocate is a good one, so kindness need not temper honesty...
Personality. Eloquent and hardworking, he gets to his office at 8:30 each morning, has been known to make as many as 16 speeches in a single day. Has a rapid walk, fastidiously precise diction, and a temper that can erupt over the slightest clumsiness on the part of a subordinate. Married to the daughter of his former Strasbourg landlady, he eats sparingly, drinks scarcely at all, likes long walks, the opera and Russian novels...
Hoffman saw no prospect for any large scale violence in the present dispute, at least in continental France. He remarked that the present premier, Pierre Pflimlin, a Christian Democrat, has both "the energy and the short temper" he will need to cope with his present difficulties...
...TEMPER: "I would be less than human if I were always a Pollyanna...
...THEIR FREEDOM. The sectarianism in Memorial Church is but a symptom of something much deeper and more widespread. To get rid of it there and have it continue vigorous among Harvard men would be like clipping a few inches off the whiskers of a tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact. And the temper of the sectarian tiger is anything but wholesome now on account of the fear-inspired gloom and emotionalism of current theology...