Word: self-control
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Charles occasionally wrote letters to his son and sent books by Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. "The letters seemed strange and alienating," recalls Lachenmeyer, then a student at the University of Chicago. "Now I've learned what a remarkable exercise in self-control they were." Because during this period his father's illness was clearly getting worse. When Lachenmeyer incautiously asked about his schizophrenia in a 1989 letter, Charles responded by calling him "an arrogant little s___ who needs to have his behind warmed...
...actor wasn't the first choice to replace Benzali's Hoffman, whose steely self-control and dour sanctimony made him almost unbearable by season's end. "Danny's main strength was an enigmatic, very still quality, which I was really attracted to," reflects Bochco. "But he didn't do much beyond that with any particular ease." After approaching too costly stars like Alan Alda and Danny Glover, Bochco settled on LaPaglia, a talented character actor who has made his mark in a number of independent films including Bulletproof Heart and the current Steve Buscemi film Trees Lounge. Bochco then...
Such a conclusion should come as no surprise. Notions of self-control and abstinence are absolutely foreign to this generation, and are fought against by it as repressive measures of a reactionary regime. Truthfully, there have never been reasonable arguments against immediate sexual gratification--besides fear of AIDS--presented to us either in secondary school or on this campus. The Sexual Revolution screwed morality. By affecting a morally neutral pretense with respect to sex on campus, Harvard furthers the reign of hedonism in the social sphere...
...life-style and our attitude toward food and eating. The answer is not to take the fat out of the fatty foods we eat but to take the fat out of our diets by selecting naturally low-fat foods and then to get off the sofa and start practicing self-control! CHRISTOPHER S. ROBINSON Seaside, California Via E-mail...
...food producers are delighted to cooperate: supermarket shelves overflow with diet soda, sugar-free candy and, in recent years, fat-free cookies, crackers and snacks of all descriptions. Some of them may taste like chemical-flavored cardboard, but for millions of diet-conscious consumers, they're better than practicing self-control...