Word: restraint
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...soft, easy cardigan suits and jackets; fox-trimmed jackets and sweaters to go with classic sporty pleated skirts and big tentlike shelter coats. Gimmickry was no one's gimmick: even flights of fancy-veiled hats, ostrich-feather trims and dyed gold cobra coats-bespoke a hand of cool restraint...
London Times Editor William Rees-Mogg recently started a controversy by attacking U.S. press coverage of the Watergate investigation and arguing that British papers have more respect for the rights of suspects. British restraint, he argued, protected "universal principles" of justice. He had hardly returned to London from a U.S. visit when an uncomfortable reminder of that restraint was visited on his paper...
Much of that disintegration takes place as he watches his beloved Tadzio dance on the beach. The Royal Ballet's 19-year-old Robert Huguenin (who, true to the novella, never speaks) is sinuous without being sickly sensual. This restraint probably errs in the excessively angular choreography Sir Frederick Ashton has designed for the cavorting boys on the beach. Yet it is an effective use of ballet as a symbolic vehicle...
...Restraint is beyond him. The volume of his voice is a full roar; the volume of his drinking-on which he has believed "my science and art depended" -has borne him repeatedly to the edge of doom. As a last hope, he finds himself in Ward W of a midwestern hospital's treatment center, vowing to "get out of the whisky business altogether...
Some psychiatrists believe that youngsters are afraid of what they so insistently demand; they really want less rather than more freedom. Psychoanalyst Mintz cites the surprising popularity of the Hare Krishna movement. Before joining the sect, many devotees behaved without sexual restraint; as members they have found what they apparently need: "Under the guise of a religious commitment ... a strict, ascetic society with a built-in set of controls...