Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obviously came to terms with his great gifts after he had finished Leafstorm. He has acknowledged that reading Faulkner and making a pilgrimage through Yoknapatawpha country helped him to enrich his own private literary property and see its mythic possibilities. At any rate he developed from a cautious, limited craftsman into a prodigal fabulist with total command in his protean imagination...
LIKE THEIR OPINIONS on tutors, the Masters' attitudes on freshman affiliation are cautious...
...ATTITUDE of Harvard House Masters toward House courses is cautious. Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, said in an interview that House courses work fine "insofar as people want to give them." Lowell House, he stated, has had a committee like that proposed by CHUL since the beginning of special concentrations. He would like to encourage House courses as an option, but believes a departmental effort to concentrate sophomore tutorial in the Houses would be far more valuable...
...means anti-radical, only cautious; his respect and awe for the tenacity and the vitality of the nation's downtrodden is matched by his lamenting the need for such tenacity. He reminds those of us who advocate radical change of both our ultimate goals and awesome responsibilities; we fight in the last instance not on behalf of social theories but to serve people and if we disturb society's equilibrium, we are really upsetting the lives of individuals. We had better be sure we are deeply dedicated to pushing on for a better world to replace...
...most of it. "Vibrate," she exhorts. "Vibrate like a violin." To a tentative singer she says: "Don't be overcautious. And please don't look down. Lift up your head. You can do it." After the singer tries again, Callas may say: "You are still too cautious on the high note. Whatever you have, out! Eh?" If her severity wounds a student, sometimes it is for the best. "There! You're looking at me and you're suffering. That's what I want in the aria...