Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. . . . At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply [of news] is not tainted. . . . Comment is free, but facts are sacred. . . . Comment also is justly subject to a self-imposed restraint. It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair. This is an ideal. . . . We can but try, ask pardon for shortcomings, and there leave the matter...
...N.A.M. put forth its own anti-inflation program with a plea to management to redouble its "efforts to increase production, lower unit costs, and pass on the benefits of such increased productivity to the public." It asked union labor to show restraint...
Nicholas Nickleby (Rank; Prestige) emphasizes, by contrast, the fine restraint that distinguished Great Expectations (TIME, May 26). The producers of Expectations realized that Dickens' literary grimaces would be made ridiculous by the least suggestion of mugging by the actors. The producers of Nickleby have permitted Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Stanley Holloway & Co. to tear into their meaty parts with about as much finesse as a pack of jackals. Still, this particular melodrama-which intersperses the quarrels between a vicious uncle and his virtuous nephew with a savage attack on the schools of Dickens' day -scarcely deserves...
...little before 8, the trestles holding back the crowd at the Etoile gave way with a loud crack, and the demonstrators swarmed over the police. Up to this point the police had acted with restraint; now came the peremptory order to clear the avenue completely. Suddenly everything was incredibly confused; I tried to get out of the melee by flattening myself against a tree. Police batons flailed, crashed with a sickening crunch on faces and shoulders. The Gardes Mobiles drove their rifle butts at the heads of the oncoming Communists; one of the police was shouting "Salauds, salauds...
...renditions of love songs from "Liebeslieder Walzer" by Brahms, the Crimson exhibited feeling and restraint which directly rested upon the use of covered-tone throughout. Similarly in the treatment of "A Lieta Vita" in the Gastoldi trie the Club's controlled vocal quality, which had to overshadow the same mechanical lack of sponaneity apparent in the opening number, "Glorius Appollo," triumphantly impressed itself...