Word: restraint
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Webern's Five Pieces of String Quartet experiment with the tensions of silence. They are an exquisite exploration of the shades of restraint, a catalogue of delicate sonorities. In contrast to the Ginestera, every note comes necessarily, logically; Webern probed deeply, but quietly. The five short pieces alternate in mood from taut chattering to strained deliberation. Yet every note requires sensitivity, and in response the Quartet turned in its best job of the evening...
...wedding. Green's management of the actors is also superb; every member of the cast performs at the top of his talent, and the 19-year-old girl who plays the defective will inevitably be nominated for an Academy Award. Mimieux mimes with subtlety and restraint; she simply behaves like any other well-developed, not-very-bright girl in her late teens, except for an ever-so-slight blankness in the eyes. When the spectator is suddenly shown this flawed creature splashing and giggling in the bathtub with a cute little plastic duck, a shudder goes through...
...conflict that has existed throughout the life of the republic. Freedom of speech is a basic right of every U.S. citizen-and that right presumably extends even to military leaders. But civilian control over the military is another fundamental tenet of U.S. Government; to be effective, it must include restraint of generals and admirals in their public pronouncements...
...record $542 billion in the fourth, predicted that it would hit $570 billion for 1962 as a whole. "The gains already achieved have set the stage for further new records in output, employment, personal income and profits." That the dollar might retain its buying power, the President urged restraint on management in its pricing policies, and appealed to labor to take it easy in wage demands. Said he: "We must seek full recovery without endangering the price stability of the last four years. The experience of the past four years has shown that expansion without inflation is possible . . . with cooperation...
...Hague, U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant urged both governments to refrain from "precipitate action" and resume negotiations aimed at seeking a peaceful solution. Netherlands Prime Minister Jan de Quay accepted U Thant's proposal, reported that his military commanders had orders to act with the "utmost restraint." At week's end, Indonesia's Sukarno agreed to negotiate a settlement "in conformity with the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter...