Word: cautious
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...economic grounds, and not even on humanitarian grounds primarily, but on the grounds of attempting to build peace in Indochina and therefore to contribute to peace in the world." In an appearance b fore the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State William Rogers pursued the same cautious, pragmatic line suggesting a kind of moral neutrality regarding the war's devastations, looking forward rather than stirring again any possible questions of international guilt and innocence. Said Rogers: "There may be some longing among Americans tc withdraw from the burdens and responsibilities of an active role in world affairs. Twice...
...originally said the vase came from a reputable dealer who got it from a European collection where it had rested since "before World War I." With the atmosphere already full of acrimony over Met policies (TIME, Feb. 26), the museum's officials were aloof and cautious. The curator of Greek and Roman Art, Dietrich von Bothmer, did admit that Hecht was the dealer. But at first he refused to identify Hecht's source, adding with either remarkable disingenuousness or extraordinary lack of judgment that the name was difficult to spell and he couldn't remember it. Eventually...
Evidently, Hoving's style grates on the art world today; the euphoria of the '60s is over, and the acceptable tone is more cautious. Great museums-and the Met is one of the world's greatest -are, and should be, conservative organisms. They grow slowly like coral reefs, each polyp a work of art, some submerged, and others exposed as the tides of taste fluctuate. They represent a store of evidence about the past that is the indispensable raw material of cultural history. Above all, they are about interaction - between, among other things, "major" and "minor" works...
...Faculty has proven itself temporarily intractable, students should extend the olive branch. If the Faculty will not accept reforms, so the argument runs, let us at least settle for what we can get--limited student participation on the CRR, for example. Although perhaps well-intended, this view is hopelessly cautious: it asks accession to an unjust situation merely because the CRR seems to have staying power...
Pompidou's choice of ombudsman has been greeted with hostility and hilarity. Out of retirement came 81-year-old former Premier Antoine Pinay, a cautious conservative who is remembered chiefly as the "savior of the franc" while serving as De Gaulle's Finance Minister. Critics charge that Pinay's appointment is purely political; he is honorary president of the Républicains Indépendants, the Gaullists' chief allies in government. "We would have taken him more seriously," remarked the satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaine, "if he had been five or six years older." Noting that...