Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exceedingly difficult job to do without making the character a slippery heel. He injects a good deal of humor into his acting, notably through gestures. Despite this, however, the characters of the wife and daughter are more intriguing, if less whole. Arlene Francis plays the wife with a restraint that suggests that there is more to her than the script will allow. Her part is brief and disturbing; the audience is hardly allowed to make more than a "cocktail-party analysis" of her personality...
...Buck told the audience at the dedication of the new library yesterday afternoon. "Our worser selves have had little confidence in the capacity of man to solve his fate, have treated our students as though they were children, and so have sought to substitute for free inquiry, discipline and restraint," he said...
While some companies had shown "admirable restraint" in holding down prices, others had raised prices more than justified by increased costs. Therefore, "business should give careful and thoughtful consideration to the inflationary effect of large profits and unreasonably high prices." Although the economy was turning out more than ever, "more and cheaper consumer services" are still needed. "As long as these needs exist, we should not worry about having a 'mature' economy. We still have a frontier to push forward." When it was over, one delegate commented: "This was a damn good speech. I say that...
...three important characters avoids the ambiguity which prevails in the Greek camp, and in the attitude toward war. Jan Farrand is gorgeous, graceful, and convincing as a Cressida who wants to be faithful but simply cannot say no. Bryant Haliday plays a tragic Troilus with maturity and restraint. His statement of utter despair when his world collapses about him is impassioned, but unexaggerated...
...than do the means of subsistence, and must be controlled by either positive checks or preventive checks. The positive checks are those which increase the death rate-famine, disease, epidemics, excessively hard labor, and war. The preventive checks are those which reduce the birth rates-celibacy, delayed marriage, "prudential restraint" in married life, and other forms of birth control. Although Malthus underestimated man's capacity to increase the means of subsistence, he did not underestimate man's capacity to reproduce...