Word: circumspection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emerging into public view after weeks of hard-working seclusion, Lyndon Johnson seemed at once confident and uncommonly circumspect. He appeared determined not to shroud his movements in the usual, much-criticized secrecy, and he obviously tried to keep his utterances restrained but natural...
...suit now? Mrs. Kennedy seems to feel that the author was not circumspect enough in his use of material gleaned from ten hours of her tape recorded reminiscences a few months after the assassination. Undoubtedly, she revealed her "innermost" thoughts to Manchester--but why did she do so, if she didn't want him, the authorized historian of the assassination, to use the material? And if she is so touchy about her so-called privacy, why did she ever allow Manchester to invade it in the first place? What is most perplexing, however, is that the elite group...
Mayor Collins, whose September remarks are responsible, in a sense, for the just-beginning flurry of dinners, may be secretly chuckling over the decisions of so many neighborhood politicians to seek his office. Collins has been considerably more circumspect about his future plans in the last month or so and seems to be acting more like a candidate recently. He may not have completely made up his mind, but it is to his advantage to have many other aspiring candidates believing that he is not running should he decide to campaign for re-election...
...fresh news. The Herald sent boatloads of reporters to meet arriving ships at sea; by the time a ship landed they had already interviewed the passengers for European news. And it was the Herald that sent Stanley after Livingstone. Greeley's Tribune, on the other hand, was urbane, circumspect, and an influential voice in the infant Republican Party-though not so Republican that it could not find room from 1851 to 1861 for a London correspondent named Karl Marx...
...psychiatrists' statements that he has no such thing, Boutilier took his case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Last week that court, in a 2-1 decision, rejected Boutilier's appeal on the ground that "psychopathic personality" legally means what Congress was too circumspect to say, "No homosexuals allowed...