Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accomplishment of Roots of Involvement is to record, in cool temper and spare style, how that hodgepodge developed into the Viet Nam War. The authors are Marvin Kalb, CBS diplomatic correspondent, and Elie Abel, his former NBC rival, now dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. They have combined scholarship legwork to construct this useful chronology. They also offer a thesis: that the Viet Nam War is not an aberration but part of the "inexorable progression" of past misconceptions and blunders, including the desire to bolster France, the general goal of containing Communism, and finally a specific fear...
...level, Director Dick attempts to analyze the instability the modern temper. Supercivilized Martin airily accepts his wife's peccadilloes, and in the next second goes round bend, hurling Honor to the floor beating her. On another level, A Severed Head is a comedy of - but they are all bad manners: mixed with Pinteresque pauses, attenuated satire of psychoanalysis with gross sight gags - like Martin's groping for the phone when is only the (guffaw) doorbell...
...just want to tell you there'll be no more political skits in this dining room," he said. Bryce later said he regretted losing his temper, and denied that the policy was a political one. "It has to do with protecting our privacy. The dining room is a private place" he said...
Even as repression has become more muted in the Soviet Union, social and economic forces are at work in the society to temper ideological fundamentalism. A fervent, unashamed patriotism is still evident, as is a certain loyalty to the ideal of Communism. Still, mass education, one of the system's most laudable achievements, has created legions of men and women who are less inclined than their unlettered peasant parents to accept without question the necessity for class warfare or some of the other brutal simplicities of Communism...
...always has with Scott, on whether he can confine his explosive energies to the discipline of acting. Always aware of the past that has scarred him, he says now: "My violent behavior is some sort of aberration, a character defect I'm not particularly proud of." Struggling to temper what he calls "my terrible fire," he remains acutely aware that he is still in danger of being consumed by the flames. From his view in the tenth row, Scott can also see that this is a risk that a great actor must...