Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackson Pollock painting is apt to resemble a child's contour map of the Battle of Gettysburg (see cut). Nevertheless, he is the darling of a highbrow cult which considers him "the most powerful painter in America" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947). So what was the cautious critic to write about Pollock's latest show in a Manhattan gallery last week? The New York Times's Sam Hunter covered it this...
Both sides agreed that the laurels, so far, should go to cheerful, determined Ralph Bunche. Like a solicitous duenna, he herded the delegates in & out of his personal suite, beamed on their cautious handshakes, protected them jealously from the press. He had also personally drafted the agenda of the conference and the armistice preamble, which one Israeli delegate called "a brilliant piece of statesmanship." At week's end, Bunche, still hard at work, was leaving the optimism to his aides. Cried one of them: "I expect to be on my way to Geneva by the middle of next week...
Said brash Legislator Liu Pu-tung, a strong advocate of peace: "The road to peace has brightened." An army general read the terms. "Surrender?" he snorted. "They are asking far more than surrender." Most officials were cautious, but they thought the door to negotiation-on the Communists' terms, of course-might be opening...
...number was chosen to correspond to the membership of the Jews' last "Great Assembly," which met (according to Jewish tradition) in the 5th Century B.C. Its legislative work is summarized in its exhortation: "Be cautious in pronouncing judgment, have many pupils, and build a fence around the Torah...
There were other compensations for management. Productivity, which had been none too good in 1947, had become, in the cautious words of one industrialist, "satisfactory." Said the National Industrial Conference Board: about 67% of the companies it surveyed reported that productivity had increased from 1% to 28% over 1947, with an average increase of 7½%. In short, with 4% more in the industrial labor force, the nation turned out 9% more goods...