Word: restraint
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Morello, with his mix of invention and restraint, makes for a guitar hero the post-Nirvana crowd can embrace. His playing is not indulgent--rarely will he take an all-out, all-eyes-on-me solo--but it is attention grabbing nonetheless. Like Hendrix, he can coax strange sounds from his guitar: metallic rasps, hip-hop-like scratches, notes that snap back like rubber. And yet, like U2's the Edge and R.E.M.'s Buck, he works in tightly focused riffs and bursts...
...exercise this uncharacteristic restraint? Frankly, I once had a personal confrontation with the bureaucratic attitude toward sport, and since then I have harbored memories that may make me naturally sympathetic to the Gingrich view of beach-volleyball history...
Along with his philosophy of judicial restraint, Scalia boasts a resume bursting with brilliance (valedictorian at Georgetown, a Law Review editor at Harvard, esteemed law professor at the University of Chicago) and a reputation for gregariousness and charm. So in 1986 the Reagan Administration believed that the 50-year-old circuit court of appeals judge was the perfect candidate to lead a new conservative majority on the high court into the 21st century. That he was an Italian-American father of nine whose appointment would please an ethnic constituency was a bonus. At the time, Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone...
After its longest deadlock since 1948, the Cambridge City Council selected political moderate Sheila T. Russell as mayor, thereby ending the four-year reign of Kenneth E. Reeves '72. Irked by Reeves' attempts to expand mayoral power, councillors turned to Russell because she was a voice for restraint...
...secretly in airport conference rooms from Washington to New York City, imagining a mutual future that might never arrive. "We tried not to jump up and down or giggle," says an executive of the moment when they realized their infatuation would be made legit. "It took tremendous personal restraint...