Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America's problem is not inhibition. It is exhibition. What the President and the polity and the pedagogues should be preaching is racial decency. Respect. Restraint. Manners. The lesson ought to be: Whatever your innermost feelings--and we have no idea, despite the claims of pop psychology, how to change inner feelings--we demand certain behavior. That is what the civil rights laws are about. They do not mandate a pure society. They mandate right conduct amid impurity...
...disappointed by your portrayal of President Clinton and Saddam on your cover. The juxtaposition of Clinton and a maniacal-looking Saddam panders to a comic-book view of the crisis. I pray for a day when conflict can be handled with maturity and restraint, and we can finally leave the "boys-with-big-guns" attitude behind us. DAVID BESTWICK-SATTERLEE Philadelphia...
...with the stiffly suited business executives of the male chorus, is dazzling, and the introduction of the girls' chorus to the audience--the songs and dance surrounding "Three Little Maids From School Are We" and "Youth Must Have Its Fling" are uproarious--make clear the fact that serious self-restraint is no match for the power of girlish glee...
...magic of Hatfield's music is far from gone, and at times the new material shone with the promise of her best early work. Stylistic variety, though, is still missing, at least from her live show. Until she is able to throw off some of the excessive restraint exhibited at the Paradise, Hatfield will be unable to communicate fully with her listeners. She gave the impression that she was putting forth only a small portion of what she had to offer, and a little more would go a long...
...After the smooth-talking Tariq Aziz threatened to shoot down U-2s Monday, Clinton opted for restraint by waiting to see if the U.N. Security Council would condemn Saddam. They did. Iraq responded with an angry expulsion of American inspectors that only brought the U.S. and U.N. closer together...