Word: restraint
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Heartbreaking Restraint. No. 10 does not hold a candelabrum to the White House, and De Gaulle, after all, does live in a palace. No. 10's charm is the English quality of restraint. The Mac-millans, who lived during the restoration in nearby Admiralty House, held down tight on interior-decoration costs, winding up, for example, with walls of woven rayon instead of damask in some rooms. "I am heartbroken by the result," moaned Architect Raymond Erith...
...Soviet policy is more clear-cut than its policy toward the two smaller countries because "mutual fear causes mutual restraint," the editor of I. F. Stone's Weekly, a Washington newsletter, added...
...hands unions a powerful lever to force management to give ground on wages. European governments hope that labor leaders will consider the overall interests of their national economies and hold demands within limits. German workers, haunted by memories of the worthless inflated marks of the 1920s, already show remarkable restraint, even though they are in one of the tightest of labor markets. The French government is having some success in its campaign to make any wage boost seem unpatriotic. In Britain, Italy and The Netherlands, however, union leaders appear more determined to press their advantage. But even there, they show...
...marvelous common sense. Since he does not have to act, he is freed from the gesturing and stamping about the stage that are usually used to underscore Tamburlaine's noisy speeches. He keeps his face almost expressionless through most of the production, and reads his lines with all the restraint possible. He still can't tone the speeches down quite enough; there is simply too much noise and it tires the listener after awhile. But except in his utterly unconvincing expressions of love for Zenocrate during the first act, Stone's vocal explosions never seem unnatural...
Perhaps some New Yorker advised the road company that Boston folks just wouldn't respond to British restraint. At any rate, these young men feel compelled to land on every laugh-line with elephantine emphasis. This is hardly what Beyond The Fringe (really quite a subtle piece) or English humor in general is all about...