Word: restraint
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...Gallery showroom is stuffed with pictures. Shoulder to shoulder, frame to frame, they overwhelm the viewer as he enters. Yet there is no ex-Cliffie receptionist to threaten you at the door, no sickening plunge into wall-to-wall restraint and exclusiveness like one finds in New York's big galleries. The drawers and drawers of prints are open to anyone. You may shudder at shuffling and bending beautiful Goyas as you look through the stacks of prints. But at least you can see them for yourself with no hassle, look, touch, browse as long as you want...
Jersey Standard routinely labeled the seizure "a clear violation of international law" and asked the State Department to refrain from stepping in actively. One reason for the company's restraint was that Peru accounts for less than 1% of its total crude-oil production. The company also figures that Peru, which has to import oil to meet its needs, can ill afford to tamper with domestic oil sources. For the moment, Peru's militarists were in no mood to yield. But there is at least a chance that the junta, having scored a few political points, may eventually...
This regrettable lack of restraint was especially evident on the gridiron. Dunster and Lowell Houses, apparently trying to match Harvard's rout of Bucknell, scored 53 and 59 points against Winthrop and Kirkland Houses respectively. Biggest factor in the Lowell triumph was quarterback Joel Cantrick, who threw five scoring passes...
...smooth tautness of her husband's scrotum. Another woman (Sudie Bond) recites the doggerel couplets of a poem called Over the Hill to the Poor house. The fourth character, a man with a pipe, lies silently in a deck chair, exhibiting what can only be called amazing restraint...
First Novelist Kellogg, 46, succeeds most of the time by means of firm tact and dry-eyed restraint. Her characterizations are neither bathetic nor sensationalized. Whenever the book begins to soften into sentimentality, which is a little too often, she flashes a cauterizing wit. She also resists the temptation to moralize. The common humanity of her people reveals itself indirectly, through their power to stir other lonely beings whose disfigurements are merely emotional. Arthur's death after his brief romance with Junie is rather predictable, and the ending is too pat. But Miss Kellogg displays an easy, lightly satirical...