Word: temperments
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Whatever Hanoi does, Nixon is not likely to interrupt the withdrawals more than temporarily. For one thing, the cooled American temper on the war would probably flare up again should the pullout stop-and it would surely rise sharply if Nixon were to send new U.S. forces into battle. For another, the Administration may well be correct in thinking that as the U.S. presence dwindles, public opinion round the world will bear down progressively on Hanoi to repatriate the American P.O.W.s. Certainly the Administration intends to build up all the pressure...
Knives and Artichokes. No Italian painter less resembled the Renaissance ideal of the gentleman genius than Caravaggio. His luck was as foul as his temper. He was in some ways the first Bohemian artist, and he thrashed about in the dogma-bound and ceremonious society of Counter-Reformation Rome like a beast in a net. In 1604 Caravaggio was haled into court for assaulting a Roman waiter who had brought him a dish of artichokes, six cooked in oil and six in butter. Caravaggio asked which were which. "Taste them," retorted the waiter, "and you will see." Caravaggio jumped...
...Governor's staff are also believed to have personal contentions with Hakim. Finally, it is argued by some that Sargent may well be thinking of what effect his holding of a convicted rapist could have on his own chances for national office, given the law and order temper of the times...
...wistful, slightly sentimental humor of William Saroyan and the abrasive machine-gun ribaldry of Lenny Bruce. Add to that a mental image of Holden Caulfield as a 30-year-old dropout, and you have the basic tone and temper of Terrence McNally's Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone...
...else's identify, and the risk is that personal passion and dramatic skill will cancel each other out. An actor who gets too caught up in a speech can drop out of character. But Ann Whiteside, as Mary Moylan stands out in her management of the problem, letting her temper run wild as she describes her anger at discovering that American planes bombing the Congo had "mistakenly" hit two unprotected villages in Uganda. Real anger may not be enough onstage, but Ann Whiteside's anger is so well-transformed into the anger of Mary Moylan that, at least...