Word: temperments
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...deference to teetotaling Mormon George Romney, his aides stuck strictly to sherbet punch during Michigan's Republican convention. But by convention's end, they could probably have used a real drink. Heckled by opposition within his own party, Romney had lost his temper and slashed out at Democrats in a fashion that was likely to haunt...
...argued, the nickel deal was very simple, and he could not understand why it was unclear to the Senators. "You can put the whole thing down on the back of an envelope," said Humphrey-Throughout the first day of Humphrey's appearance, Symington held on to his temper. But offstage, Humphrey told a Christian Science Monitor reporter that "they don't dare attack Ike direct so they are attacking me. This is a stab in the back." Now if there is any way to infuriate a politician, it is to accuse him of playing politics-and when...
...approach. Ever since I have been ten years of age I have been on my own, and every undertaking I have tried to do with everything that is in me. I find I cannot change." Although he either denied or could not recall most of the specific instances of temper tantrums, he did admit that he had sometimes been "incensed" by the frustrations...
Girdling the Globe. That this apocalyptic message finds good growing weather in the apocalyptic temper of the nuclear age was clear in the statistics cited at the conference. Since 1958, time of the last convention, 350,000 new members have been baptized (by total immersion), swelling the church's ranks to 1,307,800. In 1961 a record 101,600 members were added to church rolls. Rigorously tithing, Adventists poured more than $223 million into church coffers in the past four years, a gain of $54 million over the previous four...
...into the hands of T. S. Eliot and the "neo-Christian movement." which judges all literature from a Christian viewpoint. Empson finds Satan a more likable character than God in Paradise Lost. Milton's God is "astonishingly like Uncle Joe Stalin" down to "flashes of joviality" and "bad temper," writes Empson. He tortures angels and mankind for his own amusement. Satan, on the other hand, behaves like a democrat toward fellow fallen angels, and Eve he finds a great lady in the tradition of Eleanor of Aquitaine...