Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Church expansion was often excessively cautious. One bishop allowed a missionary to build a school-but forbade him to make the foundation strong enough so a second floor might be added later. The priest disobeyed: the school he founded now has three stories and more than a thousand students. And it is thanks to its schools that Christianity has an influence in West Africa that far exceeds its numerical strength. Although about one-half of West Africans are pagans and only one in a dozen is a baptized Christian, nearly every West African leader, from Ghana's flamboyant Kwame...
Taught by cruel experience to be cautious, these modern Polish writers are not so rash as their romantic predecessors and much more realistic. They combine an unflinching look at the grimness of life with a subdued hope for something better, an attitude that has spilled over into the other arts, including the best products (Ashes and Diamonds, Joan of the Angels?) of Poland's revitalized motion picture industry. "The Yalta agreement between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union," writes Editor Kuncewicz, summing up, "had the unexpected result of transforming Poland into a laboratory where the most incompatible elements...
Last summer the Baptist-run Broadman Press published Elliott's The Message of Genesis, an exegetical study of some of the more cautious judgments of other Protestant Biblical scholarship; for example, that the Flood covered only a few miles of the Middle East rather than the entire world, and that Adam might well be a symbolic term for all mankind rather than a specific human being. "This sort of rationalistic criticism." rumbled Houston Pastor K. Owen White, "can lead only to further confusion, unbelief, deterioration and ultimate disintegration of a great New Testament denomination." But not every Baptist preacher...
...Nabokov's hypersensitivity to what is written about him. He does not at all enjoy the spectacle of clumsy minds trying to sniff out the "true" Nabokov. In Switzerland, where he now lives with his wife in a hotel overlooking Lake Geneva, he is abnormally cautious in what he says to reporters. Lolita was praised or damned with energy and ignorance by almost everyone licensed to operate a typewriter...
Nothing to Lose. From the start, both Chinn Ho and the cautious Yankee management of the Boston-based Sheraton chain were a bit put off by the elusiveness of the would-be purchasers. Publicly, the combine was represented by tough-talking Honolulu Real Estate Woman Ann Felzer...