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With the Ginevra, Simon had even more reason for caution. Of the world's dozen Da Vinci experts, there are still two or three who question whether it is certainly by Leonardo's hand. Then, especially in the lower portion, it is in less than the pristine condition of the Mona Lisa. So when the prince's agents approached the meticulous millionaire with an offer to sell it for $7,000,000, he insisted that the price be reduced to $6,000,000 and that he have the right to take it to experts outside Liechtenstein...
...courage of a fullback playing his first season of professional football. He hurls himself against the line. But look at him at the age of 30. He will not be hitting the line with quite the same abandon. For the courage of ignorance, he has substituted the restraint, the caution of a little wisdom...
...handful of Roman Catholic magazines and newspapers in the U.S. are published by dioceses or religious orders-and usually display a nervous, reverential caution in telling what goes on inside the church. A cheeky, one-year-old exception is Kansas City's National Catholic Reporter, owned and edited by laymen who take orders from no one (although they get moral and financial support from Missouri Bishop Charles Helmsing). "It is the freshest thing that has appeared in Catholic journalism," says Monsignor Francis J. Lally of the Boston Pilot...
Less excusable was the orchestra's refusal to play a true pianissimo, depriving Strauss's tragic chord of most of its mystery. And often inflections betrayed caution and over-literalness, such as in the excessively elongated eighths of the horn-calls. Fortunately Don Juan is a rondo, which means that what goes wrong the first time can be corrected the next: The intonation of the violins and the precision of the brasses both improved rapidly...
...Pretty Possibility. Met officials then threw caution to the winds. Said Rorimer: "It is an original work of art, not a plaster cast. I'm convinced it is of the period and of great value." The Met will subject it to a series of exhaustive tests, but even before the results are in, Met Curator of Western European Art John G. Phillips predicts that it will prove to be the original from which the Bargello bust was made. Furthermore, he believes that it is by Leonardo da Vinci...