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...being executed, much more remains to be decided concerning the duration and scale of the attack. Large and visible protests, such as the walkout yesterday, can and should influence such decisions. Hopefully, such popular outcries will be heeded in the minds of future presidents and policymakers, and serve to temper the dangerous precedent set by the current...
Buell called Buckley’s best-known book, The Victorian Temper, “one of the field-defining books” in the past half-century, and added that Buckley’s work covered a wide range of topics in Victorian poetry and prose...
Buckley authored several books during his lifetime, including The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture (1951), Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet (1960) and The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse Since...
...passage shows how formidable Franklin could be but also demonstrates Watson's adolescent delight in needling her. He tried to engage Franklin in debate about the idea that DNA was helical, which she still insisted was unsupported by evidence. "Rosy by then was hardly able to control her temper," he writes, "and her voice rose as she told me that the stupidity of my remarks would be obvious if I would stop blubbering and look at her X-ray evidence...
Hall confesses to having a bit of a temper herself; she actually has permanent vein damage in her right leg from hitting herself with her racket during matches...