Word: cautionings
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Kubrick turned to Barry Lyndon after a projected biography of Napoleon proved too complex and expensive even for him. He reread the novel several times, "looking for traps, making sure it was do-able." With typically elaborate caution, he got Warners' backing on the basis of an outline in which names, places and dates were changed so no one could filch from him a story in the public domain. He then settled down to work on script and research. The latter may be, for him, the more important undertaking. "Stanley is voracious for information. He wants glorious choice," says...
...Cesare Borgia with twice the brains, and Machiavelli with half the caution and a hundred times the will. He was an Italian made skeptical by Voltaire, subtle by the ruses of survival in the Revolution, sharp by the daily duel of French intellects." The historians dis play such artistry too sparingly. Still, these most popular popularists are incapable of writing a dull book or a trivial one. The Age of Napoleon is not their best book, but it is their last. Readers can mourn that statement - and celebrate the fact that the Durants have contributed so much to the American...
...return and often seems close to despair. Months pass before letters cross the Atlantic: some are lost and some are destroyed. And there is her husband's constant fear that one will fall into the hands of the British and be used as propaganda, which leads him to caution her to censor what she writes. Yet throughout, the respect the two hold for each other never diminishes...
From the snowy day ten months ago when Albert L. Nickerson '33 announced his plans to retire as a Fellow of Harvard College, University officials looking for his successor saw caution as the better part of corporate valor...
...founding leaders no less than the Puritans, connected vice with sin, virtue with godliness. In his Farewell Address, George Washington said of the tie: "Religion and morality are indispensable supports ... great Pillars of human happiness ... [the] firmest props of the duties of Men & citizens ... And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion...