Word: restraint
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Wilde, a seasoned war correspondent who has been dodging bullets since the French Indochina war, landed in time to witness the media circus that greeted the troops on the beach. "The Marines showed admirable restraint," says Wilde. He tells the story of one U.S. trooper, faced with a particularly irritating photographer who refused to obey orders to lie down and keep quiet, finally fingering the trigger of his M-16 and asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing...
This wish for privacy, for restraint, is most moving when the poems that express it are themselves restrained--either metrically, as above, or to two or three tones of voice or registers of diction, or, simply, by being short. As Helen Vendler has noted, the situations and contexts in an Ashbery poem relate not to one another but to the poem's (emotional) center. The poems are often strongest when some structural constraint adds to their centripetal force...
Consider recent events in Lebanon, which is effectively under Syrian control. Earlier this month, the Israelis displayed relative restraint in responding to rocket assaults on its frontier communities by guerrillas of the militant Shi'ite group Hizballah. Syria eventually put a clamp on the attacks. Significantly, neither side broke away from the Middle East negotiations in Washington...
Center-Right Republicans. They believe the party can recapture a majority by emphasizing its two traditional strengths: fiscal restraint and foreign-policy stewardship. The centrists, who include Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Texas Senator Phil Gramm, consider the far right too offensive to independent- minded voters, especially women, and believe the Kempites are too cavalier about the federal budget deficit. An ex-Democrat, Gramm said he could balance the budget within five years, and has gone further than anyone except Ross Perot in calling for reduction in such entitlements as Medicaid and Medicare. Unlike Kemp and other supply-siders, Gramm...
That kind of restraint will not be easy. Over the past several decades, much of American medical practice and public expectation has been geared toward the idea that if someone has cancer, it should be treated without delay, observes Dr. Gerald Chodak, a urologist at the University of Chicago. But as blood tests and biopsies detect ever smaller cancers, physicians and patients will have to make more sophisticated decisions about treatment...