Word: caution
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...give a public reading, I often choose Vachel Lindsay's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven," which is a poem of its own kind, and has | no mate in English literature. The first six stanzas are semiserious, semicomical, but I always read the last stanza with caution, in case my voice should break...
...essay on exactitude, he arrives at a sensible and workaday solution to Jacques Derrida's worries about language as a representation of absence rather than presence: "the proper use of language... is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words...
...around the two leaders do not see exactly eye to eye. Zhao envisions the 11,200-mile coast as a powerful economic engine to which the backward interior provinces can eventually hitch themselves and thus be pulled into the 21st century. The more conservative party leaders who support Li caution that the increasingly well-off coastal economies could create instability. But only the speed of the reforms is being questioned, not their necessity. Last week State Councilor Song Ping proposed recombining 14 existing ministries and commissions into ten new ones. If adopted, the proposal would cut 10,000 people...
...where Dukakis clings to the caution of an erstwhile front runner, Gore offers a strategic boldness born of desperation. His target is the upcoming New York primary and, in particular, the nearly one-quarter of the state's Democrats who are Jewish. Gore's newfound issue, as so often happens with underdog candidates in New York, is the fervor of his largely uncritical support for Israel. Gore, who is developing an unhealthy instinct to pander, has attacked Dukakis for endorsing a letter signed by 30 Senators (five of them Jewish) criticizing the Israeli government's refusal to negotiate over...
...ravaging of central Africa than it has to the tragedy in the homosexual community--which may reveal something about our prejudices. Recent attempts to make warnings strike "closer to home" can easily have the reverse effect. At best, exaggerated wolf-crying will not, in the long run, teach people caution. At worst, it will cause people to strike back at "them", who they fear are on the verge of spreading the disease to "us", even though the disease increasingly affects all citizens...