Word: temperments
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...quite match Cantabrigian Snow at making an old school seem both old and a school. At rare moments, The Affair is even a touch exalted, as when a quavering nonagenarian don suddenly trumpets the underlying theme of the book: "Go now and do justice. If you can temper justice with mercy, do so. But go and do justice...
...different stripe than the rough and ready tycoons of the past, they are subdued, cautious, and vastly competent in the modern committee manner. All had to pass one prime admission test: they must have compatibility as well as ability. The man who raises his voice or loses his temper is frowned on, the lone wolf considered a troublemaker. This collective leadership, says one manager, "works like a dream. But to be brutally frank about it, if somebody ever came here who wouldn't fit in, we'd have our ways of taking care...
...this clubby atmosphere, John Loudon employs the same diplomatic skills to make things run smoothly as he does in the international world of oil. He is no desk pounder, has been known to lose his temper only once. Since the Group has an unwritten rule that decisions are never forced to a vote, Loudon, as the primus inter pares, tactfully arbitrates differences, suggests lines of agreement, sounds out his fellow directors. Four are Dutch: Lykle Schepers, 56, in charge of manufacturing, research, chemicals; Luitzen Brouwer. 49, exploration and production; Arnold Hofland, 59, marketing, personnel and Western Europe; and Loudon. Three...
...days, nonetheless has power off the tee and a pool shark's touch on the green. Last year he won the P.G.A., finished a stroke behind Winner Casper in the Open. Rosburg is now grimly trying to conquer a problem even more serious than his physical ailments: an explosive temper that usually drives him into one miserable round per tournament...
...Gentleman'sGame."In high school, Palmer got a stern lesson in controlling his temper on the course. Infuriated by flubbing a shot in a junior match, he sent his club sailing over a poplar grove. Going home, he found himself in a car with a grim father. "Pap told me that this was a gentleman's game, and he was ashamed of me," says Palmer. "If he saw or heard of me throwing a club again, he was through with me as a golfer. That did it." Settled down, Arnie Palmer twice won the state high school championship, then headed...