Word: restraint
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Looking for somebody to help heal his savagely divided party, Hubert Humphrey chose Muskie as his running mate in 1968. That decision almost saved the election for Humphrey. Muskie emerged as the star of the campaign because of his Lincolnesque calm and restraint. In 1972 he was considered the Democratic front runner, but he stumbled fatally while campaigning for the New Hampshire primary. Outraged by a charge in the arch-conservative Manchester, N.H., Union Leader that his wife Jane had a penchant for cocktails, Muskie stood in front of the newspaper office in a snowstorm to denounce Publisher William Loeb...
...hour passed, the relatives became less apprehensive. Nonetheless, some felt that they had been betrayed -and the hostages recklessly endangered -by President Carter. Demanded Bonnie Graves of Reston, Va., wife of Public Affairs Officer John Graves: "Eight deaths for what? I hope to God the Iranians are capable of restraint in this situation." In Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Ernest Cooke, mother of Embassy Staffer Donald Cooke, declared: "I can't believe they did such a thing. I understood, or thought I understood, that it was such a dangerous operation that they wouldn...
...social reform. A judge is forever bound to remain detached from the fray, and must resist all temptations to implement his personal vision of the just society-except to the extent that his vision is consistent with the law as it evolves in response to social changes. This self-restraint is the very soul of judicial impartiality. The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a process that is the same...
...because Hudlin is able to study all this in a relatively short time, without destroying the movie's unity. We leave the theater having seen a cogent, succinct work--not merely a series of important images and scenes. The simplicity of the production, doubtless due to both Hudlin's restraint and a low budget, adds to its strength...
...will not tell; we can only speculate that the plan involved a considerable amount of bloodshed, and that the safe return of the hostages was no more than tentative. Moreover, the operation can only further confuse our European allies, who just recently agreed to aid an American posture of restraint, and were not consulted till after the fact...