Word: restraint
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...streets, in the hotels and public halls, they shimmied and shook to the 2,650 songs composed for carnival. They drifted in and out of the city's uncounted thousands of parties, drinking, dancing and making friends. What they did, they did with flair and zest-all restraint was tossed to the warm breeze that blew in over Guanabara Bay. At one blowout alone, 110 revellers needed first aid treatment for exhaustion and alcohol...
...There is precious little dignity or equality in our natural state. Most human beings have to spend their lives in utter vulnerability. All are born unequal, in terms of capacity or strength . . . and survive only through the restraint shown by more powerful neighbors. For nearly 3.000 years 'Western man' has struggled to create a social order in which weak, fallible, obstinate, silly, magnificent man can exercise his free and responsible choice...
Swinburne in prose often displays what he most lacked in poetry-restraint and humor. His method was deadpan parody. According to Wilson's preface, his targets included Victorian bluenoses, stuffy fellow poets, and French romantic novelists. In one such parody of an imagined French historical novelist's handling of Victorian England, the Bishop of London gallantly seduces the heroine in a London cab. In another, Queen Victoria confesses a humiliating affair with a commoner. "It wasn't a prince," she sobs, "not even Sir R. Peel. It was one . . .called Wordsworth who recited to me verses from...
...issue upper most in every reporter's mind: President Kennedy's proposal to supply France with Polaris missiles. When a newsman brashly reminded France's President that "Kennedy is offering them to you," le grand Charles turned, stared down his questioner, and replied with heroic restraint: "Are you really sure...
...Danish spirit of restraint pervades even Copenhagen's two tabloids-Tidende's B.T. and the competitive Ekstra Bladet. Neither prints cheesecake, not for fear of giving offense, but because Danes find such displays boring: there are much better views at the beach. In any other country, King Frederik IX's three unmarried daughters would make sentimental copy, but the tabs mostly ignore them. When Princess Anne-Marie, the youngest and fairest, embarked on a mild romance with Prince Constantin of Greece. B.T. agonized awhile, then decided to be sensational. "Is this more than friendship?" it asked...