Word: discreetly
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...curtain went up, a man in a grey double-breasted suit strolled on to the nearly bare stage, clarinet in hand. Taking his time, he eventually reached a stool in a downstage corner. He tootled a few warm-up phrases; then the orchestra in the pit joined in a discreet background from Aaron Copland's Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra. Thereafter, Jerome Robbins' Pied Piper kept its happy air of the impromptu, but it was scarcely relaxed...
...serve Margaret tea while her chauffeur tried to find SHAPE headquarters. The Princess was all apologies and smiles when she arrived, and Ike managed one of his famous beams in return as he said, "Your Royal Highness, it is nice to see you." Then, after another evening of discreet nightclubbing, Margaret's Paris party was over and she headed home to London...
...policy must be to protect the liberty of the people of the U.S." Second to protection of liberty comes "the maintenance of peace." This blunt ranking of liberty above peace is in a solid American tradition, but it is also a courageous campaign proclamation for a candidate who, through discreet silence, might capture the sizable peace-at-any-price vote from Harry Truman. It is reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt's famous speech in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize when he said that he was for peace, but "peace with righteousness." And it is a vast advance over Taft...
...youngsters never seem to lose their heads; even when they let themselves go, an alarm clock seems to be ticking away at the back of their minds; it goes off sooner or later, and sends them back to school, to work, or to war. They are almost discreet about their indiscretions, largely because (unlike their parents) they no longer want or need to shock their elders. The generation has "won its latchkey." It sees no point or fun in yelling for freedom to do as it pleases, because generally no one keeps it from doing as it pleases...
...music in the air at a cushiony East Side Manhattan nightclub last week was jazz all right-but subtle and discreet jazz. It was partly the instruments; there just isn't much blare in a guitar, bass fiddle and vibraphone. But it was mostly the sandy-haired man behind the "vibes." Oldtimer Red Norvo undoubtedly was, as Metronome said, "the new thrill...