Word: self-control
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Persistence was joined to a stern self-control. Under constant fire, Clinton kept his cool. Throughout the seemingly endless campaign he lost his temper only occasionally, such as the time during the early primaries when Clinton received a false report that Jesse Jackson had endorsed his rival Tom Harkin and went ballistic into an open microphone. Most of the time, Clinton remained ever affable and was never distracted from hammering home, over and over again, the same message: The nation demands change, and I'm the candidate with a plan to produce it. Or, in the now famous wording...
...song about Ice-T's inability to control himself, at least sexually speaking. Ice-T sings "Evil dick/Evil dick" at least twenty times (which pales in comparison to his innumerable usage of "motherfucker," but we won't nag him)--and we wonder how he can be so adamant about self-control in race relations but still permit himself to be dragged around by his independently-minded appendages. Which, of course, does not for a second detract from how cool the music...
...worry about the future. As a participant put it, "The moment anyone was tempted to give way to gloom and doom, he just would not allow it." But those who could read Gorbachev's lexicon of looks saw something more going on last week behind the remarkable show of self-control. The brilliant sparkle in his eyes that used to keep visitors riveted in place seemed to flicker out. Confided a close Kremlin aide: "Mikhail Sergeyevich knows how to take criticism. But this has come as a crushing blow...
When labelled groups select a term to describe themselves, they are asserting a kind of self-control, Asay says. "That's challenging the power structure...
...society a favor, too. The damage of excessive alcohol consumption is not limited to the kidneys of the drinker. The message that Harvard social life sends to students is that the best and most sure-fire way to have fun is to lose control of the reasoning faculties and self-control that got them here in the first place. That's a lot to lose for a great party...