Word: restraint
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...extend guarantees to American private investment" in Yugoslavia and Rumania.) And in the vital field of limitations on strategic arms, the U.S. acknowledges that "no nation will maintain an accord which it believes jeopardizes its survival." When the legitimate interests of the two superpowers collide, the President suggests, restraint and mutual concession are the only rational ways to accommodate their differences...
Like so many other troubled, dislocated young Americans, Taylor may at first seem self-indulgent in his woe. What he has endured and sings about, with much restraint and dignity, are mainly "head" problems, those pains that a lavish quota of middle-class advantages?plenty of money, a loving family, good schools, health, charm and talent?do not seem to prevent, and may in fact exacerbate. Drugs, underachievement, the failure of will, alienation, the doorway to suicide, the struggle back to life?James Taylor has been there himself...
...moved to reconsider the role of violence if they are convinced it is tactically counterproductive. Violence is just a tool for them, and they use it when they think it is necessary. They might think the use of that tool is alienating people now, but I assure you that restraint is a very temporary thing. I'm sure it's going to get worse. The gap is still too big. There is no communication between the stable, experienced people and the younger people who have no experience to lean on. There is so little passage of knowledge...
...actual incident, recalled in a spirit of quiet fury. Working with only two professional actors, the maiden and the official. Bertucelli persuaded the inhabitants of a remote village-who had never seen a motion-picture camera-to perform their lives without a trace of self-consciousness or restraint. As a result, watching Ramparts of Clay is like looking at the sun-almost unendurable for long. The ritual slaughter of a ram, for instance, becomes a cataract of blood and pain...
...President also dealt with a related objection: that government spending already lacks restraint and, under revenue sharing, would be entirely unchecked. Nixon's answer: "It will be harder for states and local officials to excuse their errors by pointing to empty treasuries or to pass the buck by blaming federal bureaucrats for misdirected spending...