Word: restraint
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...sooty reality; but it is even more significant as theater. Aided by brilliant performances from Angela Lansbury as the mother, and Joan Plowright as Jo, the author manages to present the person she is condemning sympathetically (and thus, fairly). She sets forth the accusation against her with restraint and humor rather than fury, while the informal use of jazz reinforces the author's directive that "the time is today...
...setting up an army-run bureau to control the press, education, religion and culture. At that, Gursel decided to move. "Recent commit tee discussions have taken the form rather of open war than of constructive exchanges," he explained later. "In a democracy, it is necessary to have the self-restraint to abide by a majority decision." With his control of top army commands, Gursel managed to get rid of the 14 relatively junior officers without resistance-though he prudently disconnected their home telephones before sending the police with the news. To keep them out of trouble, the 14 will...
...from the American people to change things overnight. "This was no landslide," commented the Salt Lake City Tribune. "There is no great popular mandate which the ambitious and dynamic young Senator takes with him into the White House. This should be a sobering influence on him. He needs some restraint on an oft-indicated impulsiveness." Added the Houston Chronicle: "The people did not tell him to inaugurate vast new programs or to stage another '100 days' of 'must' legislation as President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...discovered that the law compelled him to grant bail to King. And the influential Atlanta Constitution had editorialized: "Any ends of justice that could be served by holding Dr. King in prison would be minor indeed compared to the wreckage of this community's reputation for racial restraint." Furthermore, Jack Kennedy's brother Bobby had a phone conversation with Judge Mitchell, and Jack himself had called Mrs. King to voice his "concern...
...Vatican. Last winter, at a diocesan synod of Rome (TIME, Feb. 8), Pope John XXIII asserted the right and even duty of the church to advise the faithful on how to vote in elections. In practice, the Vatican seems to prefer that this right be exercised with great restraint by the hierarchy of the United States, to which the Puerto Rican bishops belong. But 90% Catholic Puerto Rico, though a part of the U.S., has a Spanish-speaking population and Spanish traditions, and is considered by Rome and by the island's bishops a part of Latin America, where...