Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part, Howell derides his opponent as "Young Johnny" or "Johnny Boy" and accuses Dalton's camp of "Nazi-like" tactics. Howell has tried to temper his maverick image by invoking his closeness to Jimmy Carter, who joined him on the campaign trail last September. Moreover, Howell is running on the same ticket with Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law Chuck Robb, a reassuringly moderate candidate for Lieutenant Governor...
...then the new Chris Doherty took control again, avoiding a seemingly imminent game ejection by trotting off the field before the brouhaha got out of hand. This is the Doherty that has tamed his temper and come up with a banner season in the Crimson backfield...
...players call him Slava, not maestro. He refuses to place himself on a pedestal higher than the podium. Herbert von Karajan once broke up a rehearsal when he spied a musician chewing gum. Szell was a tyrant. Toscanini's men loved him, yet trembled before his baton-snapping temper. "Sometimes," says Rostropovich in his near-impenetrable English, "conductor says to orchestra, 'You play for me and my ego!' No. Orchestra must not think conductor is god. Some day he is running quick to bathroom, then orchestra says, 'There go god with diarrhea.' I, with my work, make service...
...commonly associated with the life of a maverick, a man who insists on swimming upstream. He has unorthodox theories, an unusual physical appearance, and has often been the focus of sensational charges. But his case has failed to attract the kind of interest usually directed toward men of his temper. It is even more difficult to account for the neglect of Humes's case when one takes into account the nature and focus of his crusade...
Julia settles in Vienna while Lillian throws temper tantrums about writing blocks in her oceanside home and dramatically suffers through her first failures and successes. Cantankerous Dashiell Hammett, Hellman's long-term lover (Jason Robards), calmly listens as Hellman agonizes over such moral dilemmas as whether to contribute part of her unexpectedly large royalties to a good political cause or to buy a sable coat. (We never rind out which she opts...