Word: restraint
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Traditionally, he noted, the country has considered education as a consumption good, perhaps more valuable than tobacco, but still to be treated with Puritan restraint. Recently, the tendency to approach education with the attitude of an investor has become more prevalent, he claimed...
...protector, the goatish Louis XV, had not died of smallpox before the diamonds could be assembled. Antoinette, the new Queen, then seemed the ideal purchaser: her husband had the money, and she, possessing a 43½-inch bust, could set off 647 diamonds properly. But the Queen, exercising restraint for perhaps the only time in her career, said the necklace was too expensive...
...response. The Denver Post, though unmoved by the State of the Union message ("moral, but it did not inspire"), was stirred by the valedictory speech to historical comparisons: "The parting messages of Dwight Eisenhower and George Washington had this in common-an essentially conservative tone, one of dignity and restraint...
Flagged Spires. Suddenly, the Moslems' long restraint snapped. Screaming like men who have been too long silent, Moslem mobs flooded the narrow lanes of the casbah. From under thin mattresses and floor boards came hundreds of forbidden flags of the F.L.N. rebels-green-and-white banners bearing a red crescent and star. In bright green paint, slogans were splashed on any and every convenlent wall: "The F.L.N. Forever," "Long Live Ferhat Abbas," "Long Live Moslem Algeria...
Tradition Updated. Technology also tempts to structural exhibitionism. Pietro Belluschi has raised a warning: "A simple church, well proportioned, is always better than an elaborate one. Church design should be an exercise in restraint, in understatement." Belluschi is equally concerned that the cult of novelty for its own sake, and the clinical clarity now fashionable in architecture, might remove from the church symbols that have both embodied and nourished faith. "People need them and live by them to a greater extent than is realized." Belluschi says...