Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are worried about a lot more than just production and profits. The temper of the times has moved them: they see the rattletrap slums as they are driven in from the suburbs; they hear their young managers, products of the 60s, speak of dreams unfulfilled; they listen to their wives and daughters tell The men at the top in business- a bit self-conscious that theirs is a white, male domain- are trying to respond. Most are struggling with ways to hire, their train and capital and promote more intellect to women, revive the blacks and cities. Almost Hispanics...
...book with the subtitle Some of My Best Friends Are People should be flung across the room. The reader is urged to employ this method of criticism with the volume at hand, a collection of Leo Rosten's light essays. Book flinging improves the temper of the flinger, and in this case it improves the book as well. Passions and Prejudices, when it is retrieved and smoothed out, gets down to business and stops apologizing for its intelligence...
That introduction suggests a chalky professor lamenting the decline of English since the invention of the cathode-ray tube. In fact, the author is also a lively raconteur, poet (Blue Juniata), critic (A Second Flowering) and living history of the liberal temper. At 79 he is older than the century, and wiser. He has witnessed the failure of his early radicalism and watched favorite writers fall into neglect and obscurity. Yet, almost alone of his generation, he remains unafflicted by bitterness. Every chapter of -And I Worked at the Writer's Trade reveals a humane and spacious...
...says Haldeman, "greatness in him." But if Haldeman argues that Nixon's character assets ("intelligence, analytical ability, judgment, shrewdness, courage, decisiveness and strength") outweighed his flaws, he by no means minimizes those faults. He variously describes Nixon as having a "dirty, mean, base side" and "a terrible temper," being "coldly calculating, devious, craftily manipulative" and "the weirdest man ever to live in the White House...
Last year, when Begin's Likud coalition won its upset victory over the Labor Party, Washington hoped that Begin's ascent to power would temper the ideological fervor he had shown during his 30 years of opposition. As it turned out, Carter and his top aides hardly knew what a real ideologue was until they confronted Begin, and it took them a while to appreciate the phenomenon. When Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, for instance, talks of his people and their struggle to survive, his terms of reference are the wars of 1948, 1956 and 1967, the crises...