Word: temperments
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...believe that if the party denied the nomination to a man who had legally amassed 1,300 or more delegates through the primaries and caucuses, then the party would be in ruins, the nomination scarcely worth having. Perhaps naturally, Humphrey dismisses that idea: "The party is weary of temper tantrums of juveniles who, if they don't get their way, are going to bolt." But Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, himself an early presidential contender, shares a foreboding that a convention defeat for McGovern would mean a disastrous fracturing of the Democratic Party-"It'd make...
...unrelieved fatalism of his Slaughterhouse view, and may move beyond it having admitted the limits of his hero. So may many of the high school students and undergrads who think Billy a traditional pilgrim moving to some new point of enlightenment, and not a sad comment on the heroic temper of our times...
...somewhat beside the point; as the outpouring of voles for George Wallace and McGovern proved through the spring, Americans are in a mood of restless malaise, fed up with the war, with "big government" and "big business," with institutions that do not seem to work. Such a foul public temper is dangerous for any incumbent. In this climate, the reasoning goes, McGovern is eminently electable; Ihe conventional political wisdom does nol hold any longer...
...sits up in bed with her uncovered back to the audience and says to her husband, who is standing naked against the wall: "Harry, you could get arrested for what you just did." "Love," says Harry, "can make you do strange things." Replies the violated Vera, with almost maidenly temper: "Give me hate any time...
...lieutenant and a 13-year-old chorine. When she was seven, Eliza's father died of cholera in India. Shipped home to Scotland, the child appalled her stepfather's Presbyterian parents by running naked through the streets. Hustled off to school in Paris, she perfected a homicidal temper and a gift for languages. At 19, she eloped to Ireland with a lieutenant named Thomas James, who soon ran off with a captain's wife. Eliza changed her name to Lola Montez, and under the protection of two great and good friends, Lord Malmesbury and Lord Brougham, made...