Word: caveats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...write Lolita, which was to make him famous). Most of the copies of Despair remained in the London publisher's custody; in 1940 a Luftwaffe bomb reduced them to confetti. Nabokov explains all this in a foreword to this revised translation-also his own -and enters his usual caveat against reading anything into the book that isn't there: "Despair, in kinship with the rest of my books, has no social comment to make, no message to bring in its teeth...
...Pious Caveat. Delivering the Godkin Lectures at Harvard, former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Walter...
...Democratic majority called, as expected (TIME, March 18), for "standby" tax increases that could be put into effect whenever needed by a joint resolution of Congress, plus immediate suspension of the investment tax credit. In deference to the Great Society-and the November elections-the report contained a pious caveat that "the poor, the sick, the aged, the infirm and the discriminated against" should not, in any case, be asked to "carry the major burdens of preventing inflation." The six-man G.O.P. minority demanded "an immediate deferral of federal spending for nonessential and low-priority projects," though New York...
Until recently, many American humorists obeyed that caveat by looking the other way when the subject was raised, or treating the whole thing as a joke. Robert Benchley spoke for most of his colleagues when he lampooned the scientific students of humor with his dictum: "We must understand that all sentences which begin with W are funny." Well, something unfunny has happened to American humor. Today the humorists are outexamining the examiners, some of them even making second careers as commentators who probe and pontificate on the radio and TV panels that ceaselessly sift American manners, morals and mores...
Next, $10 Million? At $3,861 per sq. in., Simon was simply playing caveat emptor according to the rules. The prince, currently hard pressed for cash following several unsuccessful business ventures, agreed-but he was in no mood to let his treasure cross his principality's boundaries or risk an adverse verdict. When negotiations broke down, the prince's art dealer, Josef Farago, issued a categorical denial: "The prince would not dream of selling the Leonardo." As for the prince, he was, as one to the manner born, off hunting in Austria. Does this mean that Ginevra...