Word: cautionings
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...impact on men. Yet for all his public charm, he is an inner-directed man in an outer-directed profession. Even his closest staff aides have accepted the fact that he insists on making key decisions alone. In his climb to the Senate, Brooke has brought to bear the caution of the colored man, the self-confidence of the mulatto, and the conservatism of a family that was civil-service oriented...
...deeply disturbed woman. When he marries her and takes on fresh responsibilities, he finds himself free. Given the same sort of opportunity, Meyer remains trapped. He falls in love with Lena, a middle-aged sculptor, but when the time comes to declare himself, he retreats into his customary caution-waiting, watching, chary before choice. Then at last Lena does him a favor-she dies. At her funeral, Meyer surveys her friends. "Terrible people," he tells himself later. "Terrible. I should never have gotten involved." He never will again...
...social security benefits and new programs in the health, welfare and urban-rehabilitation fields; he is particularly interested, for example, in a program to build nursing homes that would be "the kind of place I would have liked to see my mother in." But he is also expected to caution that the Great Society will have to proceed at a somewhat tempered pace...
Most important, the state sets maximum limits on wages and prices-through "guideposts" in the U.S., the "freeze" in Britain-in order to protect the corporate-planned economy from inflation. Galbraith found it amusing that such control, though a reality, is nonetheless still approached "with great caution and circumspection, somewhat in the manner of a Victorian spinster viewing an erotic statue...
...direct outgrowth of Spain's industrial democracy and its expanding prosperity, which no one wants to endanger by abrupt or violent political change. His hope is that under an umbrella of constitutional monarchy, Spain will continue to travel along its present liberalizing course, mixing progress with caution. "Spain," declared Franco, "has her familiar demons-the demons of anarchy, negative criticism, lack of solidarity and extremism. The political system that best suits us is not one that cultivates and encourages these, but one that prevents and counteracts them...