Word: temperments
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Weinglass and the Harrises had no complaints about Prosecutor Samuel Mayerson, who laid out his case with cool, professional thoroughness. But emotional clashes almost immediately erupted between the defense and Judge Mark Brandler, 66. On occasion Harris lost his temper and once cursed Brandler. A bitter defense disappointment came when Brandler refused to bar admission of a tape sent to an L.A. radio station on which Harris talked about the shootout; both defense and prosecution experts had testified that the tape could have been altered...
...Muskie, Henry Jackson and Adlai Stevenson III. In his measured, mannerly way, the taciturn interrogator with the clear blue eyes asked them questions about their taxes and net worth, their health, and about their personal lives. He had picked up information that one of the men had an undisciplined temper, that another was a poor manager, that still another's personal conduct was questionable. Kirbo carefully raised all such subjects, listened to the answers, and at week's end reported back to Carter...
...book about baseball ever written. Maybe writing about sports is the last thing talented men can do if they want to be considerate of human foibles and balanced in the estimation of their subjects. Too much else, because it is supposed to be so important, now reflects the bad temper of the prematurely senile: pomposity of writing and a failure of common honesty make for boring polemics on the most "weighty" of topics. Truth springs from generosity, and guys like Epstein and Angell, speaking of the hustling Pete Roses and Jerry Sloans of sports or the demise of the Polo...
...reason for urgency is that cathedral artisans are a dying breed. No two stones in the edifice are alike. Hand-crafted from Indiana Limestone, they are put in place by the 25 skilled stonemasons now on the site. Then there are the eleven stone carvers. The occasional quick temper of the master of the group, Roger Morigi, 68, is immortalized in a carving by a colleague: a Morigi-like head has an atomic bomb cloud forming over it. The stone carvers work under the alert eye of John Fanfani, 52, who is the son and nephew of two carvers...
...even more deadly on the stump than Bayh; and Maine's Senator Ed Muskie, who is a tested leader, but is seen as a failed candidate since his 1972 flop. Two men unlikely to be considered are Congressman Mo Udall, who pointedly pricked the usually controlled Carter temper the last couple of months, and California Governor Jerry Brown, who Carter staffers say has been flatly ruled out on the basis of too little experience and too much eccentricity. Carter's advisers say both blacks and women are being considered: Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan...