Word: restraint
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...Peter Shaffer is well established. Shaffer himself has presented it, in such hugely successful plays as Equus (1973), Amadeus (1979) and Lettice and Lovage (1987). He is stagy, melodramatic, given to portentous evocations of myth, an obsessive juggler of the duality between head and heart, reason and inspiration, ordered restraint and exalted excess. Of course the same plays, viewed from another angle, make a strong case in Shaffer's favor. He is intensely theatrical, intellectually provocative, inventive with plot and setting despite the single-mindedness of his themes -- in short, entertaining and fascinating even at his most over...
...Thespian Restraint Clause: There can be no more plays/musical operas running at Harvard at any given time than there are on Broadway...
Quoting from his book On Press, Wicker said "press in America needs less inhibition, not more restraint...
...seems so easy to stay on the sidelines, content with our statements of horror and pleas for restraint. Intervention appears messy and frightening, just as it did in China and Ethiopia...
...best way to treat an idea that we disagree with is to critique it and you can't do that if you engage in prior restraint and do not invite the wide diversity of opinions represented in the political and intellectual community to campus," Gates said. "It's very easy for us to support the First Amendment when we agree with someone's opinion and not to support it when we find someone's opinion out of sync with...