Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passing an effective civil rights bill this year; indeed it takes considerable optimism to say that there is even a chance of passing a bill at this session. This is a very unfortunate situation. For years much of America acknowledged that it had mistreated its Negro citizens, but the temper of the President, the composition of the Congress, or the feeling of the electorate stood in the way of effective legislation. It would be criminal if political bungling or squabbles within a committee killed a civil rights program this year, when meaningful legislation could be passed...
...architect, but of a person who takes an interest in his surroundings. The building appeared to me a very good one indeed. It was exciting, full of movement, possessed vitality and reflected not the vision of Christopher Wren or Thomas Jefferson but of our own time and our own temper. At that point I did not know the name of the architect or even the name or function served by the building, I stopped two undergraduates and inquired what the building was used for. They said it was the Health Center. Then I was sure the designer had been right...
...than a year, Venezuela's Castroite F.A.L.N. has committed almost every misdeed in the book to embarrass President Romulo Betancourt. It has cold-bloodedly murdered some 50 policemen, staged an endless series of robberies, hijackings, kidnapings and bombings. Through it all, Betancourt kept a tight rein on his temper; he regarded the F.A.L.N. as a civil police matter, an annoyance to be handled by ordinary criminal procedure. But last week, the F.A.L.N. outdid itself: it took on the army, and Betancourt swiftly declared all-out war against Venezuela's Communists...
...past, published criticism of him has often thrown the President into shows of temper. Now he was asked about two recently published books-one by TIME'S White House correspondent, Hugh Sidey, the other by Victor Lasky (see Opinion). Some reviewers had called the Sidey book too uncritical of Kennedy, the Lasky book too critical. What did the President think? Again, he refused to rise to the bait. He had, he said, thought Sidey's book "critical." As for Lasky's hatchet job, he had only read the first part, but he had seen it praised...
...said, recalling his Canadian youth, "the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave smashing viciously against the rock. It is called The Rage. That's me." On reaching 70, a nice round retirement number, he thundered: "I'll not give up my temper. I'll not give up my passions. I've enjoyed them far too much to put them away. I'll not give up my prejudices, the very foundation of my strength and vigor." When a new acting managing editor was hired for the Daily Express...