Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood" had always been little more than a journalistic convention, but it was one which President Bok and other key University officials treasured dearlu. The demise of the new mood and the cautious but steady rise of student activism hit the University hard this year; the pop sociologists with their love of labelling events at the expense of explaining them had not prepared Harvard officials for the change...
...activities. Most students in the groups, confident from the high turn-outs in the demonstrations last spring, believe they will be able to keep up the momentum for change. Some even express hope that they will see a broad leftward turn in the politics of the students. The more cautious students, however, hold back judgement on that point and continue developing organizing techniques and amassing the evidence they believe they will need to lead an effective fight against the University's investment policy in South Africa over the next few months and years
...muggers. New York has the fifth highest major crime rate among the ten largest cities in the nation, behind Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Detroit. Major crimes in New York decreased last year by 6.4%, perhaps because the potential victims have become a good deal smarter and more cautious. Apartment houses have installed closed-circuit TV and buzzer systems. In large office buildings, guards check identification passes...
What Yates provides is a very cautious and narrowly limited range of realism, but within that range he is expert. He describes the anguish of a lumpy, unathletic student who later redeems himself by becoming editor of the school paper, after he has been stripped and abused sexually by a gang of healthy fools: "Grove was set free and ran to his room, and for hours after that, alone in the darkness, he lay wondering how he was going to live the rest of his life." This is acute and poignant; so is the author's evocation...
Nevertheless, an air of cautious optimism prevailed in Washington last week. Buoyed by the recent agreement between Zaire and Angola to re-establish formal relations and cease their border fighting, U.S. officials are still hoping that a peaceful solution in Namibia could have some direct influence in pointing the way to a resolution of the Rhodesian crisis. "The situation is just about as good as could be expected," a State Department specialist remarked last week. "In fact, we've made more progress than we thought possible 15 months ago." Those who favor an end to the strife in Namibia...