Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contains less than 2% of the total film shot on the Marianas campaign-lacks the fierce, hammerlike simplicity which helped make With the Marines at Tarawa (TIME, March 20) one of the most powerful and moving short films ever made. But it has the same excellent directness, integrity and restraint; and it has some new qualities all its own. Every American who sees it will find new reason to be proud of his country and of a mature work of art as well...
...have seen the faces of young people in love and the faces of old people at peace with their God. I have never seen in any face such joy as radiated from the faces of the people of Paris this morning. This is no day for restraint, and I could not write with restraint if I wanted to. Your correspondent and your photographer Bob Capa drove into Paris with eyes that would not stay dry, and we were no more ashamed of it than were the people who wept as they embraced...
...Though for her sake I have welcomed her death as bringing freedom from living agony, I feel the loss more than I had thought I should. We were a couple outside the ordinary. It was in 1906 that by mutual consent and after unconscious trials we definitely adopted self-restraint as the rule of life. To my great joy this knit us together as never before. ... I now come to your address which you delivered before the Legislature and of which you have kindly sent me a copy...
...analysis, Harold himself urged the analyst to publish the record.) Without much hesitation, Harold gave the details of a hair-raising career of gun-toting, stealing, vandalism, fornication. Like all psychopaths, Harold was "a rebel without a cause, a revolutionary without a program," a grownup infant with no self-restraint and a craving for instant satisfactions...
...first eleventh-century church! . . . Serious and simple to excess! is it not? Young people rarely enjoy it. They prefer the Gothic. ... No doubt they are right, since they are young: but men and women who have lived long and are tired, who want rest . . . feel this repose and self-restraint as they feel nothing else. The quiet strength of these curved lines, the solid support of these heavy columns, the moderate proportions, even the modified lights, the absence of display, of effort, of self-consciousness, satisfy them as no other art does. They come back to it to rest,, after...