Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professional critics have praised her just as warmly. Oddly enough, U.S. critics were, and still are, inclined to temper their praise with a touch of condescension. They note her obvious limitations of draftsmanship and range, and only then admit her ability to evoke atmosphere and create lively scenes. But the European reaction has been full-out. A Zurich critic speaks of her "magic spontaneity . . . completely unsentimental, and as untouched as nature herself ... a phenomenon of our times." Paris' Arts votes "thanks to Grandma Moses for the happiness she shows us." Vienna-born Otto ' Kallir flatly insists that Grandma...
Taking mamma's advice to heart, Shamela is soon playing the untouchable so prettily that she sends the squire's temper as well as his temperature up, and he goes around raging, "Hussy, Slut, Saucebox, Boldface-come hither!" Shamela takes to her bedroom instead, but carefully leaves the door unlatched (Pamela always locked hers). When Pamela's door was forced, she would faint dead away, but when the squire comes "pit a pat into [Shamela's] Room in his Shirt," Sham flashes some impromptu but effective jujitsu...
...Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club, Dwight Eisenhower slept through McCarthy's speech. When reports about it came in, the President kept his temper and his silence. But almost everyone around him agreed that, in the face of McCarthy's challenge, Eisenhower's McCarthy problem will have to be solved soon. Presidential aides, long divided on Administration policy toward McCarthy, were still divided. A small minority, determined to preserve party harmony, was against an open battle at this point. A majority thought that the time had come for Dwight Eisenhower to give the back...
...winning side at last. He recovered quickly. In 13 years as Secretary of the Interior, Honest Harold (a nickname that made him squirm) became a national institution. His bristling incorruptibility, his old-fashioned reformer's views, his endless suspicions of all other politicos, his Donald Duck temper and acid-tongued campaign speeches made him a figure unique in the New Deal...
...deep knowledge of his period coupled with a naturally flashing temper has somewhat limited Jones' patience with undergraduates. He is under the impression that the academic duds migrate to his course, looking for a gut. If this be so, they are generally rudely awakened, for Jones has little patience with students like the one who wrote in his blue book that he wished to discuss the nineteenth-century poet "Omer Chiam." But Jones thinks that both the hour and the lecture system itself are fine. "Nine o'clock is a sybaritic hour," he says. "The trouble is that...