Word: circumspection
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...methods have been and still are, in the main, scientific, emphasizing the historical changes which condition art, or its sociological and economic causes. But the approach which gives literature its chief significance and uncovers its closest bonds with the serious and comic business of living is the personal, informal, circumspect way of feeling out of a poem its final emotional substance and seeing how it jibes with ones' own experience. It may be said with truth that literature is not taught in a rigidly scientific manner in Harvard. The real fact is that it is taught indecisively, middlingly and aimlessly...
...doubtless reveal many interesting situations. Despite books like "Humanity Uprooted" and the flocks of lecturers who annually return from Moscow brimming with new information, one can never be sure he has a true conception of what Russia is actually doing. It is notorious that the Soviet officials are decidedly circumspect in what they allow foreign visitors to see, and doubtless if Mr. Whalen took the trip they could manage to pull off a good show...
Sirs: TIME is so vital, so alive, so circumspect in selecting the right word that I grieve at your continued use of the obsolete term Tycoon. Why not replace it with Big Shot? Everyone knows what Big Shot means. It is more than slang-it is part of the American language. It would fit in with your telling and picturesque phrases. And even the Big Shots rather thrill at the term Big Shot. E. G. KYTE...
...Bird In Hand" which has been playing at the Majestic for a few weeks before rather small audiences confirms the theory that Bostonians do not know a good play when they see one. From the circumspect shadows of Beacon Street to the more bizarre shades of Revere there is always the cry that this city never gets a good play. Judging from the perverse manner in which these same people choose to distribute their patronage, it is little wonder that the producers do not turn the city over to the Mutual Burlesque circuit and content themselves with more discriminating cities...
...daily newspapers, more circumspect than the impetuous Lampoon, dare not antagonize a whole political machine so smoothly oiled that a monkey-wrench in the Police works hardly interrupts its powerful grinding...