Word: circumspection
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Reagan, of course, submits himself to the entire White House press corps, though not as frequently as his predecessors. His senior aides, who are owlishly circumspect on the Sunday TV talk shows, can be more forthcoming in private interviews when guaranteed anonymity. The awkwardness of this arrangement is that the press can only hint that its information comes from the horse's mouth and that this particular horse is not just any old dray horse. Such anonymous sourcing is irritating to the reader, and a burden on the press's credibility, but remains a useful device to convey what really...
...Pontiff's circumspect language, said Czechoslovak Josef Cardinal Tomko, a member of the Pope's inner circle in Rome, was dictated by the "hope of receiving from the other side a response equally conciliatory, human and constructive." Lately there have been small but significant signs of change. Last year the Czechoslovak weekly newspaper Tribuna called John Paul "one of the most reactionary Popes of this century." But last May, another state- controlled paper, Katolicke Noviny, lauded John Paul as the "untiring hero of international detente." The seeming thaw in East bloc-Vatican relations was not in evidence last year when...
Bunte was equally circumspect. In an introduction to Rolf's story, it recommended skepticism by readers "because this is an account of a man who for more than three decades knew how to escape or deceive his pursuers." The magazine promised four more installments describing how Mengele, immediately after the war, had worked for four years as a groom for a farmer near Munich; how he had been mistakenly arrested by Italian authorities in 1949 in Genoa, then released three weeks later with friendly apologies; and how he was assisted in South America by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Luftwaffe...
When executives discuss a corporate merger, they become as circumspect as Swiss bankers. So it went with the merger between Allied and Signal, announced last week. Edward Hennessy Jr., Allied's chairman, along with Forrest Shumway and Michael Dingman, Signal's chairman and president, met March 5 at Marriott's Camelback Inn, a plush Scottsdale, Ariz., resort with two 18-hole golf courses, two swimming pools and ten tennis courts. Hennessy and Dingman registered under the last name of Dingman's secretary. Although the executives are fond of sports, they seldom left their rooms. When discussing the firms, they called...
...York dress manufacturer who wildcatted an oil fortune in the Rocky Mountains. The two offer a startling physical contrast: Davis is a 6-ft. 4-in. bear weighing 300 lbs. and fond of enveloping friends in an enormous embrace; Murdoch is trim, 5 in. shorter and circumspect, though cordial, in manner. Both share an aversion to the spotlight, a passion for long working hours and, more to the point, a consuming interest in making their millions beget more millions...