Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As leader of the liberal faction and an urban expert, Rocky might, if traditional rules operated, expect a top post in a Nixon Cabinet, perhaps Secretary of State or Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Temperament -both his and Nixon's-would probably rule this out. Rockefeller actually says...
It's nice when things go smoothly on a movie set-when temperament doesn't rise up and take over. Note the scene in Italy, for instance, where Marcello Mastroianni, 43, and Faye Dunaway, 27, are filming A Place for Lovers for Vittorio De Sica. She helps him...
Blue-Eyed Soul. Does this mean that white musicians by definition don't have soul? A very few Negroes will concede that such white singers as Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee have it, and Aretha also nominates Frenchman Charles Aznavour. A few more will accept such blues-oriented whites as...
Across the Lincoln Center Plaza at the Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal Ballet presented a striking contrast in style and temperament. The City troupe evokes the high-rising glitter of curtain-wall skyscrapers; the Royal reflects the spacious, gracious luster of Britain's princely mansions. Choreographically, the City Ballet...
Socialist Michael Harrington is one of the last of the political evangelists-by temperament more Old Left than New Left. He comes on, in the words of Britain's best America-watcher, D. W. Brogan, like a pastor at the moment of decadence. In The Other America, Harrington heaped...