Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard coach Ray Essick voiced cautious optimism about today's meet. "We were at a high pitch last weekend against Dartmouth, and there is a tendency to flatten out after that kind of performance," he said yesterday...
...machine-type politics in a city which had been dominated by the Democratic machine for nearly 100 years. Although from most indications, Watergate had little impact on the race, Beame is the type of candidate who is likely to be popular in a post-Watergate electorate. He is staid, cautious, has a reputation for scrupulous honesty, and is too old to be ambitious. Beame is the classic civil servant, the man who once taught accounting in one of New York's high schools. He is an official of overarching caution, awed by risk, frightened by intuition...
...keep politics off the TV news, with a face that won't interfere with the commercials when he fails. A city like New York, seemingly lurching in every direction at once without an apparent plan, needs more than a caretaker. Beame's combination of cautious administration and the meticulous pluralism called for by his organizational base will lock his administration into the same types of solutions that failed in the past, the blind him to many of the innovations in areas like land use and open-space planning would go for towards improving the urban environment...
This is, in large measure, a self-perpetuating philosophy. Conservative, cautious politicians are created by their perception of an electorate that will buy security, peace and quiet every time. Men like Beame actively spread the doctrine of caution among voters, creating more of their species in the process. For this reason, it is a philosophy which win elections on the national as well as local level. But for cities like New York, it may make the subways cleaner for a time, but it is, in the long run, a doctrine of slow strangulation...
When the war erupted, the United States was right to adopt a cautious approach, Simes said...