Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words-in vintage MacArthur oratory-on youth and age are likely to be remembered longer: "Youth is not entirely a time of life-it is a state of mind. It is not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips or supple knees. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions... Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals...You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your...
Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, where the local toughs forced him to portray favorite athletes on the pavement with chalk. Little Ben learned to draw very well indeed. He also developed a temper. It was the perfect schooling for a "proletarian-school" painter. Shahn grew up to startle the art world with a series of watercolors, almost as beautiful as they were bitter, based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He became perhaps the best, and most depressing, painter of the Great Depression. Shahn's "havenots" were lean as greyhounds and sad-eyed as spaniels; his "haves" always...
Last week, Willie and the Giants learned something they might have suspected last September: too many days in uniform can turn baseball into a dreary business. Tired, his temper on edge, the old pleasure of playing gone, 23-year-old Willie got into a batting-practice scuffle with his Giant teammate, Ruben Gomez. Later, Willie denied everything. "All those stories about a fight-phooey." he said. "Ruben and I are pals...
...scene: a small circular stage in the basement of Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital. The cast: a group of inmates. Under white lights suggesting harsh reality, 19-year-old Susan thrashes about in a temper tantrum. She once used these tantrums to win attention from her widowed mother or her uncle. Now, as the stage lighting turns slowly to green, another inmate enters in the role of her father's ghost. The two decide to go away together, and the lights are blacked out to indicate the passage of time...
...readings and Hollywood chores. Dame Edith sometimes shows her age, often her temper, and always her talent. If her trappings and her manner seem theatrical and deliberate, they also have the genuineness that only a true eccentric can give them. And if her readings, electrifying as they are, often seem stagy, a look at the printed poems will restore the balance in favor of respect for the lady who can write...