Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House committees) and are therefore more capable than the kind of student who goes in for campaigning in student elections. A final explanation of the HPC's success (held by many of the members) is that they get things done by meeting in secret, debating questions without the restraint of observers, and hammering out positions which the whole committee backs...
...tippling is a metaphor for religious mysticism. Yet, surprisingly for a poet of his skill and grace, Graves often lapses into ungainly syntax, primly avoids rhymes, and altogether misses the colorful, melodious murmur that so entrances the ear and emotions in FitzGerald. He may be deliberately exercising his classical restraint or making an overzealous try for accuracy. In any case, he stiffens the flow of the poem. Here is one of FitzGerald's best-known quatrains...
...repeated the "primordial and most pressing" Communist demand for a total and unconditional end to U.S. bombing of the North. Harriman, in an opening statement that was edited by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford at the request of the President, noted that all U.S. bombing would stop "if our restraint is matched by restraint on the other side." But, he added, "we cannot conceal our concern that your government has chosen to move substantial and increasing numbers of troops and supplies from the North to the South...
...this respect, Madigan is a truly realistic film, complemented by Siegel's lean, often tough, style. Occasional spurts of fast cutting, Madigan intimidating a suspect and the final gun battle, are doubly powerful because of the stylistic restraint in the preceding scenes. Steve Ihnat's high-style performance as a psychopathic satyr is a welcome change from the suave ruthlessness of Aspic's urbane spies...
...CLOUD of financial restraint hangs over the entire report. Present Federal aid to education is now geared to developing new "centers of excellence" around the country, and the report seems to assume that the current financial squeeze on established private college is going to get worse. With its final paragraph, the report delivers the coup de grace to the notion that Harvard can be universally excellent: "The Committee recommends that the Faculty concentrate upon a limited number of areas in which it can provide top-quality leadership rather than seek to achieve a full spectrum of appointments in every department...