Word: self-control
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Kissinger's outburst caught the world by surprise. It was odd for a diplomat who prides himself on his reserves of humor and self-control to indulge in such a public baring of his anger and frustration. And it left startled observers wondering whether the pervasive suspicions spawned by Watergate would finally claim the best and brightest the Administration had to offer...
...Almost immediately after it hits the stomach, alcohol is coursing through the bloodstream to the central nervous system, where it starts to slow down, or anaesthetize, brain activity. Though it is a depressant, the initial subjective feeling that it creates is just the opposite, as the barriers of self-control and restraint are lifted and the drinker does or says things that his well-trained, sober self usually forbids. Only later, after a number of drinks, are the motor centers of the brain overtly affected, causing uncertain steps and hand movements...
...getting by with cheaper cuts of meat by applying more meat tenderizers. "I used to go into a supermarket and buy any brand I wanted, but now I take the one with the coupons," she says. Nessa Forman, arts editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, has become a paragon of self-control. "I used to think nothing of going into a store and buying a pair of shoes without looking at the price," she says. "Now I look at the price, and I likely walk out the same way I came in-in my old shoes. Spring shopping...
Mishima sealed this literary package with his ritual suicide in 1970, when he was only 45. Unlike, say, Ernest Hemingway, who shot himself at 61 in apparent despair over a deteriorating mind, Mishima killed himself in what seemed a gesture of robust if wasteful heroism, the ultimate act of self-control. Since his death was so theatrically deliberate, the temptation is strong to judge the tetralogy as an artistic and philosophical suicide note to the world. The note is now three-quarters completed for English-language readers. It is fascinating and ambitious, but the final message (and literary value...
...Depends on early training in self-control," answered one wife who limited her own intercourse to six to eight times a year...