Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the sketches are still as bright as they are is a tribute to Arnold Auerbach, who wrote the book, for he has shown admirable restraint in keeping esoteric G.I. jokes to a minimum. Instead, he has relied on situations which are capable of convulsing anyone who is at all aware of the fantastic age (or lack thereof) of Air Corps colonels or the Claghorn quality of certain Southern statesmen...
...year-old Austrian, Gottfried von Einem, five by Paul Bowles and several by such unknown Americans as Everett B. Helm, Bela Wilda and Ned Rorem. Her voice was limited in range and occasionally harsh in the high notes, but as always, her interpretations were intelligent and distinguished by restraint...
...producers deserve some applause for their great restraint in not including one smutty story or involved Freudian ballet, but the book is so flimsy as to defy exposition. It is more than likely that New Yorkers will stay away from "Toplitsky" in droves should the show strvive its Hub stay and the long, cold trip south on the New Haven...
...parties with some of the 414 West Point cadets who came with the team. In Madison, where more than once in the past the cops had had to cool off Wisconsin students with tear gas, Langdon Street was deserted by 11 p.m. There was a good reason for student restraint: more than half the boys were war veterans, older than prewar undergraduates...
Like most New Yorker short story writers, Author Parsons knows how to reproduce scenes from middle-class American life with photographic neatness, and a restraint that verges on bloodlessness. Author Parsons' characters are often worn to the bone by despair and nostalgia, but they are rarely impolite; they give vent to long sighs, but never to bad language...