Word: temperments
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...Krutch, the author of "Edgar Allan Poe" and "The Modern Temper", spoke Sunday night at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, where his subject was "The Drama from Ibsen to O'Neill...
...this sex sympathy which has enabled her to untie many heretofore tightly tangled Elizabethan knots. Embracing the political implications of the virgin's reign - the development of England's insularity, the alienation of the continent-she fails however to suggest as strongly as did Strachey the lusty temper of the times, the era gorgeous with talent, studded with awesome genius. But she establishes herself again as an acute, comprehensive, sometimes vivid biographer, well-equipped to develop her summary of Elizabeth-"Her reign was a marriage, and the nation was her child...
...slight but almost continuous discomfort and at times a serious nervous upset, from childhood to the day of his death. It prevented the little boy from playing football, baseball, and all other strenuous games. And it probably was a factor in causing his terrible headaches, his still more terrible temper, his ghastly dyspepsia, and his nightmares...
Though the story may be apocryphal in detail, it well suggests the temper of Harkness giving. His frequent and princely donations to education and charity have always been unobtrusive, modest. In philanthropy he does not bunch his hits as do the Rockefellers, but scatters gifts of $100,000 or more to dozens of causes and institutions. Sometimes he gives to institutions he has never seen. Though the complete listing of the Harkness benefactions would stretch over columns, these are representative, most of them recent...
Prime Minister's limousine and peasant's cart plunged side by side down the road for 20 yards, the peasant sawing at his horses' mouths, shouting bristling Bulgarian obscenities in a voice like the ripping of an oak plank. Finally with his horses but not his temper under control, the farmer pulled a big, black, Balkan pistol from his waistband, punctuated his curses with bullets. Shots riddled the windshield and the rear windows of the Liaptcheff car. Only by sliding prudently to the floor did Bulgaria's Prime Minister keep his skin whole...