Word: self-control
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...twists of the Bible by which Father McNeill [Sept. 20] justifies homosexuality are but another victory in the anti-Christ campaign to wipe out every trace of self-discipline and self-control...
...Episcopalian who participates in weekly White House prayer meetings. Says Georgetown University's Political Scientist Jeane Kirkpatrick: "They come from modest origins, having achieved personal success with hard work. Neither has the style of an urban sophisticate like a Kennedy or Roosevelt. Both have high levels of self-control...
...well as he believed it could be done. He expected the maximum from us." Carter deals with his own aides in a more humane way, even managing an occasional commendation. But the fact that the Rickover manner impresses him suggests that he is still susceptible to military notions of self-control and obedience...
What is this emotional malaise for which domesticated Americans pay the day-to-day price? Here again Guest is conventional. Too much self-control, she implies, too little trust of one's feelings. Thus the nearest to a savior the novel boasts is a flip-hip psychiatrist who eats doughnuts, drinks awful instant coffee and shares the floor with his patients because he can't afford a couch. His message to Conrad comes perilously close to the slogan of the '60s: LET IT ALL HANG OUT. Guest's alternate solution: the love of a good woman...
...reason against the reason of his fellows-and to check both against the law, the collective wisdom of generations. Is independence justified? And will it work? The delegates in Philadelphia, and most of their fellow citizens, would answer yes-if man is indeed the rational, moral creature, capable of self-control for the greater good, that the Americans of 1776 believe...