Word: temperments
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...experience has not erased his sense of awe about being where he is and who he is. And in a way, that is his strength. There is newness still about him, an abiding belief in the goodness of people that continues to rise to the surface, and even his temper emerges as a very special righteous indignation, a rare quality in the gray of Washington's current power holders. Ed Muskie, the Polish immigrant tailor's son, is a true believer. That scarecrow frame, craggy face and gravelly voice make everybody think of Abraham Lincoln, and that...
...mutual lowering of barriers will temporarily make Japanese competition more intense but also more equitable. Sooner or later Japan will have to temper its export drive because its economy is already operating under some severe strains. For one thing, the country is running out of labor. A decade ago, there were two job openings for each high school graduate; this spring there are 7.7. Japan has also bought export growth largely at the price of skimping on internal investment in housing, roads and pollution control. The country's industrial pollution is perhaps the world's worst. Says Nippon Steel...
Harvard did temper its poor performance by winning the Ivy League Championships this weekend on the Charles, but the regatta is considered a relatively insignificant event in intercollegiate sailing...
...accomplishment of Roots of Involvement is to record, in cool temper and spare style, how that hodgepodge developed into the Viet Nam War. The authors are Marvin Kalb, CBS diplomatic correspondent, and Elie Abel, his former NBC rival, now dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. They have combined scholarship legwork to construct this useful chronology. They also offer a thesis: that the Viet Nam War is not an aberration but part of the "inexorable progression" of past misconceptions and blunders, including the desire to bolster France, the general goal of containing Communism, and finally a specific fear...
...level, Director Dick attempts to analyze the instability the modern temper. Supercivilized Martin airily accepts his wife's peccadilloes, and in the next second goes round bend, hurling Honor to the floor beating her. On another level, A Severed Head is a comedy of - but they are all bad manners: mixed with Pinteresque pauses, attenuated satire of psychoanalysis with gross sight gags - like Martin's groping for the phone when is only the (guffaw) doorbell...