Word: temperments
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...Edwin Arlington Robinson, whom many critics have laureled as America's most formidable poet, rarely permits himself such lyricism as that and when he does, it is with a strangely deprecating air. There is a bleakness in his blood, commonly supposed to be the temper of New England...
...temper would unhinge...
...wife bears the burden. Every evening when he comes home from dispensing everywhere the cheer that wins votes, he takes his temper out for exercise. Hovering in the background is the silent, honest worker who worships the wife in purity and quiet...
...such devotion through long months, amongst many another work and pleasure, will our youth yet give themselves because this music and this singing frees they know not what quickening within them. In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper, pursue such endless and exacting toil. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. Everybody fights shy of such shamming. Self-expression and release are the better words--with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...
...good book as Pudding books go; that is, it writes a plot to fit a scant collection of people, and a most attractive equipment of scenery, and the number of trick doors in the set, and the numbers and specialties in the score, and keeps its head and its temper through all this wrestling, occasionally cocking a humorous eye up at its assailants with a line like. "You must have some vices--do you row?" or "Our family dates as far back as the first Liberty Loan drive!" Now and then it makes fun of the plot, which...