Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like Spassky, was set to receive 30% of the sale of film and TV rights. He later relented on that score, but continued to insist on another chance to play the second game, a demand chess officials refused to grant. Given Bobby's stubbornness and short-fused temper, not even the experts could predict the next move...
...hungry or venal on a solely personal level, it is foolish to invoke moral considerations at all: though I presume that the attitude the filmmakers wanted to express was "this is the way the system works, and if we want to change it from within, we will have to temper our idealism." (Pretty apt sentiments for today, coming from a pre-McGovern production). In effect, the film as it stands says: give the right personality-pushers an amiable fellow who thinks right but can hold his tongue, and they'll make a hero out of him. (Which...
...believe that if the party denied the nomination to a man who had legally amassed 1,300 or more delegates through the primaries and caucuses, then the party would be in ruins, the nomination scarcely worth having. Perhaps naturally, Humphrey dismisses that idea: "The party is weary of temper tantrums of juveniles who, if they don't get their way, are going to bolt." But Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, himself an early presidential contender, shares a foreboding that a convention defeat for McGovern would mean a disastrous fracturing of the Democratic Party-"It'd make...
...unrelieved fatalism of his Slaughterhouse view, and may move beyond it having admitted the limits of his hero. So may many of the high school students and undergrads who think Billy a traditional pilgrim moving to some new point of enlightenment, and not a sad comment on the heroic temper of our times...
...somewhat beside the point; as the outpouring of voles for George Wallace and McGovern proved through the spring, Americans are in a mood of restless malaise, fed up with the war, with "big government" and "big business," with institutions that do not seem to work. Such a foul public temper is dangerous for any incumbent. In this climate, the reasoning goes, McGovern is eminently electable; Ihe conventional political wisdom does nol hold any longer...