Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salaried staffman, Surgeon Blalock has no private patients, never sees a penny of the fees for his operations: all the money goes to the university. A painstaking administrator, he is also a crackerjack lecturer, wasting no words and never losing his temper. Only in the operating room when, with a heart exposed, life may be in the balance for hours, does Dr. Blalock's gentle voice betray his tension. As soon as possible after his work is done, he relaxes with chain-smoked cigarettes. Weekends, he fishes or plays golf (in the 80s, despite an unsurgeonly waggle...
...that the CRIMSON has chronicled for the last five years. Every timid administrator, every repressive rule, every indignantly patriotic a legislator feeds upon this distrust, and doing so, increases it vehemence. This year's novelty, the Congressional investigations, are but one, albeit the most gaudy manifestation of the scapegoat temper. You can call the Veldes and Jenners whatever you like: ambitious intolerants, "junketeering gumshoes," or violator of the spirit of due process of law. But the volume of their fan mail testifies to the faithfulness with which they represent and satisfy public opinion...
...ideal spokesman for the company. As the grandson of a man whose every pronouncement used to be Page One and free advertising, Henry has worked hard at his own role as the headline-winning industrialist. He has the pragmatic common sense of his grandfather, his father's even temper. Like Old Henry, he reads little. He is a "tell it to me" man who learns by ear, and has his grandfather's same sharp-eyed way of looking about him and asking, "What's the good of this?" While his family is Protestant (Episcopal), Henry became...
...Will to Serve. Even more indicative of the new temper of Reform were the findings of a survey conducted by the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. Items: ¶Three laymen in ten-and half the rabbis-now feel that their congregations should have more ritual and ceremony. ¶ There has been a marked increase in use of the ceremony of bar mizvah to admit young men to full membership in the congregation...
...eyes and a moustache. He seemed to be watching for something and always ordered Coq au Vin."Thornton Wilder and Miro frequented the restaurant, but neither made the impression on Genevieve that Louis Jouvet did, in a single visit. He came to Henri IV early one evening, out of temper and unwilling to talk. With some escargots and two bottles of Chateauncuf du pape all this changed. He stayed until four in the morning, he and the chef, a wiry Frenchman, roaring off-color Gallic songs to each other...