Word: cautiously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Where Sir George Grove in Grove IV was "certain" that Beethoven's romantic "attachments were all honorable," Grove V is more cautious, also concludes that "we need not expend much pity upon Beethoven the thwarted lover." Beethoven's cryptic answer when asked what the Appassionato Sonata meant ("Read Shakespeare's Tempest") is now interpreted as a flip: "Don't ask silly questions." Mendelssohn, who was the No. i darling of Grove IV, with 60 florid pages ("Few instances can be found in history of a man so amply gifted with every good quality of mind...
...Ezra Benson won a notable victory in his fight for flexible supports-and farmers, like investors, seemed willing once again to take a chance-the surplus commodities held by the Government totaled $6.6 billion at year's end v. $4.2 billion in 1953. Union labor, which was as cautious as businessmen during 1954's dip (strikes were at the lowest level since the war), was sure to come to the bargaining table with big, new demands. The key issue: the guaranteed annual wage. The promised cuts in excise and corporate taxes would probably be postponed. The bookkeeping budget...
...experts are a cautious lot, slow to take sides in such controversies. So it may take years to determine whether Adams or Rossi really had the last laugh...
Advice to Congress. To remedy the worst of these abuses, the Randall Commission proposed a cautious middle-of-the-road program (TIME, Feb.1) It advised Congress...
State Department planners have accepted as a target M.I.T.'s cautious estimate that, once started, World Partnership for Growth would make possible an overall 1% annual increase in income per capita for the underdeveloped nations of the world. Considering the poverty and vast size of the populations involved, this is no mean target. But it is easily within the giant capabilities...