Word: temperments
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...schoale" 's appointed overseers bought the farmhouse, surrounded it with a six-foot fence, planted 30 apple trees and turned over the whole establishment to its first master and sole teacher, Nathaniel Eaton. A poor choice. Though Eaton was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he had a vile temper, and his frugal wife apparently served the twelve students mackerel "with all their guts in them" and hasty pudding spiced with goat droppings. When Eaton finally attacked an assistant with a walnut club "big enough to have killed a horse," he was hauled into court, fined and fired. Harvard...
Americans have always wanted it both ways. From the first tentative settlements in the New World, a tension has existed between the pursuit of individual liberty and the quest for Puritan righteousness, between Benjamin Franklin's open road of individualism and Jonathan Edwards' Great Awakening of moral fervor. The temper of the times shifts from one pole to the other, and along with it the role of the state. Government intrudes; government retreats; the state meddles with morality, then washes its hands and withdraws. The Gilded Age gave way to the muscular governmental incursions of the Age of Reform...
...matters of fact, Sperber seems considerably more sound. She secured cooperation from Murrow's widow Janet and son Casey, and reflects the family point of view. Yet she does note, albeit very briefly, Murrow's hard drinking, bursts of temper and infidelities, especially his open wartime love affair with Pamela Churchill, the British Prime Minister's daughter-in-law--matters the docudrama deliberately overlooked. Using declassified FBI files, Sperber demonstrates abuses by that agency, the State Department and its Passport Bureau to harass Murrow and suggests their files were leaked to Alcoa, which then withdrew sponsorship of Murrow's trademark...
...pushes hard but is proud of their work. Suddenly Cuomo reached for the nearby phone and dialed the Governor's office. It was 11 p.m. Chief of Staff Gerald Crotty answered, still on the job. Cuomo smiled to himself, spoke a few lines and hung up. Stories about his temper, Cuomo said, are way out of date. He takes criticism far less personally now. He has stopped calling to complain to writers; these days it causes too much commotion. But anonymous criticism still angers him. "These gutless wonders," said the ostensibly better-controlled Cuomo, getting worked up at the thought...
...scouting report prepared at the time singled out Cuomo for his talent and his aggressiveness: "He is another who will run over you if you get in his way." Once, when a catcher muttered an ethnic insult, Cuomo turned and punched him in the face mask. Apart from his temper, Cuomo had a problem: he could not hit a curve ball. He knew that there was more to life than playing ball...