Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous trial of the eleven top U.S. Communists in 1949, over which he presided, Judge Medina has been much in the public eye. His personal appearances, to receive an honorary degree, make a speech or grace a platform, have kept him there. He is still having to hold his temper in check during the Government's antitrust suit against 17 investment banking houses, now in its 14th month...
...There is little room for compromise. Our best course is to cultivate intellectual honesty, a good temper, and a broad appreciation of the ultimate humanistic goals that unite and transcend the competing ideologies...
...Pataky, tenor; Salvatore Baccaloni, bass; the Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Fritz Busch conducting; 6 sides LP). First released in the U.S. in 1938 in a 78-r.p.m. album, this is still the best performance of the Don on records; no one voice is brilliantly outstanding, but the temper of the ensemble more than makes up for that. The sound, good on shellac, is, if anything, improved...
...expresses unambiguously the spirit and temper of intolerant dogmatism. Such dogmatism radically contradicts the Christian doctrine of human finitude and the Christian exhortation to humility. It contradicts no less radically the spirit of open-minded scientific inquiry ... It dictates a rigid, monolithic society which, however benevolent, regiments its members according to an orthodox party line." If Buckley had his way, said Greene, teaching "would become . . . dull, slavish, and uninspired . . . He would transform Yale into the most dogmatic, hidebound institute for orthodox propaganda...
...Japan's golden age of political assassination, the cause way to discredit an opponent was to take gun in Ford land shoot him. A miss was as good as a bull's-eye, for such was the popular temper that any attack created a presumption against the victim. To have inspired such a desperate attempt was held the surest proof that a politician had lost the confidence of the people...