Word: restraint
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...Senturia's pared-down orchestra (the Symphony is scored for brass, winds, tympani and 'cellos) provided an admirable accompaniment. The first desk winds handled the fugal introduction to the second psalm with ease, a particularly delicate passage full of grace and restraint, and in the more monolithic third psalm the brasses showed strength and carefully controlled enthusiasm...
...similar tone of restraint prevailed when the Eliot House Committee met later last night. One member ridiculed Dunster's charges as being confined to "mugs you can see through, some mayonnaise... and a few scratched rings." He noted, though, that the charter flight agency was "to be commended." Chairman John A. Hodges '62 refused "to clamor for heads," but urged that the HSA "give a full accounting of itself...
Lisa Commager was a beautiful and not unconvincing Zenocrate. She brought off her two major dramatic transitions with competence, if not eclat, and served as a restrained and lyrical foil to the military clangor of the others. Edmund Hennessy, on the other hand, did away with every sort of restraint in his nervous, grimacing portrayal of Mycetes, the effete King of Perisa. Hennessy was terribly funny, but his evident talent as a mime deserves more direction that it got. Now and then a gesture would jibe with a line. However, for the most part, he wasted a lot of inspired...
Despite this restraint, I was disappointed in the play...
...melancholy voice is eminently suited; not once did she encumber the music with leaden emotions foreign to its spirit, or dirty it with less than perfect phrasing and dynamics. Her coloratura in the incomparable "Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly" was remarkable for its clarity and restraint; and in the jolly "Orpheus himself may heave his head" her own humor was crisp and sparkling...