Word: cautionings
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...forlornly on the philosophical battlefield. Mayor Dyke, a Republican law-and-order man whose police are in a standstill cease-fire with Miffland, bemoans the permissiveness of the courts and the behavior of the Mifflanders, but he also expresses concern about the rights of Bandy's antagonists. His caution about a police move that might provoke a new riot is clearly justified by Miffland's history of police-student confrontations. Still, he would be neither human nor political if he did not have a smarting memory of Bandy's 1969 denunciation...
While corporations are slashing away at executive flab, Robert W. Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, has come up with a few words of caution about economy drives. Said he in what could rank as the quote of the week: "Moderation, even in cost-cutting, can be a virtue...
...Harvard Water Polo Club is eyeing with caution this weekend's New England Tournament after having to scramble to a 11-9 double overtime victory over M. I. T. last weekend to win the Greater Boston Tournament...
...DAVID BEN-GURION: "The existence of Israel seems justified to me, [but] I feel Israel must show great caution toward the Arabs." Advising Ben-Gurion against expanding Israel's territory at Arab expense, he says: "Do not exaggerate! Subdue your pride, which, as Aeschylus says, 'is the son of happiness and devours his father...
...Galbraith essay pokes into the pathology of Democratic hyperbole, bureaucratic caution, and the single-minded concentration on production which have afflicted American life. It is as much a social document as a party document-and besides, it sounds absurd to call the Democrats a party. The essay also shows off Galbraith's elegantly clean prose to great advantage. The hegemony of George Orwell over the modern political pamphlet may cause readers to regret Galbraith's detached sarcasm and lack of personal outrage. But they can admire the personal outrage he provokes in Robert Straus and his Democratic friends...