Word: restraint
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Damaged Soles. "In my childhood." Chekhov used to say. with typically accurate restraint, "there was no childhood." His grim father was the self-taught son of one of the rare serfs in Russia who had been able to buy his family's freedom. He kept an anemic grocery store on the Sea of Azov, enrolled his son in a tailoring school as an economic practicality, once shouted at him. "You can't run about so much because you'll wear out your shoes." When a rat drowned in a vat of mineral oil in his store, Father...
...this little island will long outlive any effort at rapprochements; perhaps the most violently committed elements of political life and the press will never forgive this Administration a moment of sanity in the madhouse they have helped create. But until the trigger is pulled, there is still hope for restraint...
...member of this Court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard." During his early years on the Supreme Court, Frankfurter's judicial restraint operated as a liberal doctrine, opposing the court conservatives, who used strict constitutional interpretations as weapons against New Deal legislation. But under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the court has leaned to sweepingly liberal interpretations of the Constitution's civil liberties clauses, and judicial restraint has acted as a conservative brake. Under Warren...
Gangster Manqué. When Miller keeps his voice (and his vice) down to a low howl, the book is good. Gentle accounts of his tailor father and his simple-minded sister are touched with skill, restraint and humor. More than the ranting, they help explain the near-psychopathic, angry compassion Miller felt for the sufferers in the suffocating world of Myrtle Avenue and Delancey Street. In a man more vicious, this anger might have made a gangster. In a man more conventional, it might have led to the kind of ambition that drove so many slum children to escape...
...outpouring of the Russian literary samovar is not everybody's cup of tea. For casual readers in particular, and restrained Western taste in general, it can be too dark, too wild and too bitter a brew. Yet it is precisely a Slavic lack of restraint and a brooding sense of evil's presence in the world that give the great Russian novelists their widely remarked dramatic powers, and place them ahead of everyone else in a less remarked achievement: the creation of unforgettably grotesque characters. From Mikhail Saltykov's hypocritical Yudushka ("Little Judas") Golovlev, to Ivan Goncharov...