Word: restraint
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...noon, police had contained most of the trashing. Only a few serious injuries were reported, although police exercised little restraint in dealing with demonstrators. Police made arrests at random throughout the afternoon...
...time. But so far, bombing a defended city is not a specific war crime. Given the goal of saving U.S. troops' lives (the rationale for Hiroshima), it can still be called a military necessity. In North Viet Nam, moreover, U.S. bombing was a model of purposeful restraint because President Johnson imposed strict restrictions and almost personally ran the operations...
Despite such stresses, Calley has demonstrated throughout a remarkable restraint, a stiff refusal to lapse into bitterness. He refuses to hate the Army or the country, or even the man trying to take away his life and freedom. At midtrial, Calley said of the Army prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel: "He's just doing his job." When Daniel ended the trial with a devastating, impassioned plea for conviction, Calley remarked afterward and with obvious sincerity: "I think he did a great...
...highly theoretical argument for censorship is made by University of Toronto Government Professor Walter Berns. Democracy, more than any other form of government, requires self-restraint by its citizens, he maintains, and self-restraint can be partially achieved by laws governing public amusements. Pornography makes people shameless, he believes: "Those who are without shame will be unruly and unrulable; having lost the ability to restrain themselves by obeying the rules they collectively give themselves, they will have to be ruled by others." Therefore pornography leads to tyranny, Berns concludes...
...real audition-and the fumblings and failings become the source of some crude, easy laughs. In partial compensation there are a couple of very funny performances by Vincent Schiavelli, playing a freak who tutors the S.P.F.C. in the art of blowing grass, and Buck Henry, whose acting shows shrewd restraint and a gratifying lack of the grandstand mugging that marred his appearance in Catch...