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...classmate recalls a bit of the Fonda home life down on the farm. "We were all afraid of Jane's father in those days. We always felt he was a time bomb ready to explode. But it was years later when we actually saw him lose his temper over some forgotten trivia. He was booming, purple-faced, with veins sticking out on his temples. It was the only time I was ever privileged to see what may have been a constant for Lady Jane...
Chicago Hospitality. Obviously well briefed on this legal point, Daley kept his TNT temper hidden. At times he glowered. During a recess. Defendant Abbie Hoffman said to Daley: "Why don't we just settle it right here and now? What is it with all these lawyers, anyway?" The mayor merely laughed. Though he stared stolidly past Kunstler during much of the questioning, Daley replied courteously when he had the chance to answer at all -which was rare. Prosecutor Thomas Foran repeatedly objected to Kunstler's questions, and Judge Hoffman sustained Foran's position 70 times. When Kunstler...
...sociology must know something about it; a pre-med still must have the requisite courses for entrance to medical school, and so forth. The program still has to be designed in terms of what you expect to do when you get out. It is like most people of intellectual temper to pursue things which capture their interest with some intensity anyway: if you really get intrigued by an area of study, you don't need concentration rules to force you to take courses in that area. Left to themselves, most students would still want to have some area, or areas...
...presents Christ as clown and Christianity as comedy, because the world "should not be taken with ultimate or final seriousness." Theologian Sam Keen, 38, pleads a similar case in Apology for Wonder. While he believes that "the wise man is a dancer," he insists that the "authentic" man temper his ecstasy with a sense of timeliness...
...became a Roman Catholic. His distressed father shipped him to Switzerland, and on Calvin's home ground the conversion was undone. "My temper is not very susceptible of enthusiasm," Gibbon wrote. Yet once Catholicism, which he had described as "a momentary glow of Enthusiasm," had faded, he rekindled the glow for a girl he met during his Swiss exile, Susanne Curchod, destined to be remembered as the mother of the writer and celebrated salon keeper, Mme. de Staël. The glow was not strong enough to survive separation and the disapproval of relatives...