Word: caution
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real impact of the moderate presence at the meeting became apparent an hour later, when SDS and NAC members marchen toward Shannon Hall. In an impromptu debate on whether the building should be burnt down, leaders of both radical groups suggested caution, and revealed they were unsure of their political base. "I don't think that it was good that Dean May was applauded," one SDS leader told the crowd, "I think we should have a march to the Houses to build support," After more than an hour of debate, the crowd drifted off. A day later, the scene...
However, from a radical viewpoint-and it not from a radical viewpoint at least in my own view-there are also positive aspects to our being here. All of us have been exposed to a variety of ideas this year. Upon our return the results will be watched with caution by our employers at home; for them our stay here is also an experiment with unpredictable results. Some of us will have become radicalized in the view of our colleagues, although probably not as radical as NAC would wish us to be. Even if we could prove...
Despite that caution, enough destructive urge remained on scores of campuses to stir dangerous action. Firebombings seemed to be the favorite tactic of extremists; ROTC facilities were their frequent targets. Occasionally violence spilled off the campus in a familiar pattern of window breaking, traffic disruption and other random harassment?the same type of activity that preceded the Kent State tragedy (see following story...
Because most advertising men are hard-core optimists, they have been slow to acknowledge the sense of uncertainty spreading over the economy and the nation. But advertising must mirror the mood of its society, and the growing signs of caution among consumers have become too obvious for even the dream spinners of Madison Avenue to ignore. The result: while there is still an abundance of frilly, fun-slanted promotions, a new tone, faintly reminiscent of the Depression years, is creeping into more and more advertising. The trend is toward a fresh stress on value...
...Soviet bureaucracy and denounced the "Russian chauvinism" that he saw crushing the rights of national minorities. In his testament, which has never been published in Russia, he wrote that Stalin "concentrated boundless power in his hands, and I am not certain he can always use this power with sufficient caution." In a final postscript to his will, he vainly pleaded that Stalin be removed as general secretary of the party...