Word: cautionings
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...Jefferson saw free speech as a means to many ends, rather than an end in itself. With him, I still feel that the primary role of the university is the public examination of the moral and spiritual quality of life. But alas, most universities, like churches, are citadels of caution...
...tall man in the London-tailored suit and woolen muffler sipped his coffee and carefully observed the husky blond in the pea jacket. Then embattled ex-CIA Director Richard Helms threw caution to the wind. He stepped over to ask whether "I was encountering as many difficulties as he had been experiencing lately," explained Robert Bedford. The star is playing a CIA man on the run in the film adaptation of James Grady's novel Six Days of the Condor. Helms had dropped by at the suggestion of the movie's director, Sydney Pollack. Helms did not engage...
...Poet Robert Service would never have written about the cremation of Sam McGee in the Klondike. Legally free as of Dec. 31 to buy bullion for the first time in 41 years, Americans greeted the opportunity with a veteran prospector's wariness of fool's gold. The caution seemed justified. By week's end, after three full days of trading in the yellow metal, gold's price stood at $174 per ounce on the bellwether London Gold Market, down 12% from the high of nearly $200 set just before...
...dollars from flowing out of the country to buy imported metal. Buyers had additional reason to be hesitant. Several leading banks announced that they would not sell gold because of the costs and risks to unsophisticated investors. The National Association of Securities Dealers told the members to exercise "great caution" in gold dealings, warning that no federal mechanism exists to protect investors...
CHINATOWN. The year's most skilled and elegant Hollywood entertainment. A Los Angeles private eye (sardonically played by Jack Nicholson) stumbles into a slough of personal and political corruption. The movie is a lambent caution about the dread but immutable uses of wealth and power...