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...said the President, is strong by power and by principle, dependent upon its caution and its wisdom. "By caution, I mean a prudent guard against fatuous expectations that a world, sick with ignorance, mutual fears and hates, can be miraculously cured by a single meeting. I mean a stern determination that we shall not be reckless and witless, relaxing our posture merely because a persistent foe may assume a smiling face and a soft voice. By wisdom, I mean a calm awareness that strength at home, strength in allies, strength in moral position, arm us in impregnable fashion to meet...
...trivet-table of a foot was lame, A blot which prudent Baucis overcame, Who thrust beneath the limping leg a sherd...
...poetry is one the whole unexciting, A. E. Keir Nash's "Der Blaue Reiter" uses some very effective imagery in portraying the imaginative travels of a little boy on a wooden horse. Sallie Bingham seems to take a rather ambivalent attitude toward "The Young Girls," who "love in prudent silence on the frozen ground." Some allusions which bring to mind the Seven Dwarfs ("And start to work with soap, and heavy towels . . .") weaken the poem considerably. In his poem about Perseus, William Teunis describes the gods as "con-vanished," so it is somewhat jarring when they reappear "slamming the doors...
...against the imprisonment of prominent resistance leaders in Rumania. His companions were armed with automatic weapons and grenades, he warned, and would resist "until death" because they knew that there was no escape for them. Searching him, cops found papers he had scooped up in the legation. After a prudent interval, the Swiss diplomatically returned the papers to Chargé d'Affaires Stoffel...
...animal Author Nathan is really aiming at, of course, is man; in the shape of Sir Henry, he makes a fine target. No longer young, prudent Sir Henry is just a run-of-the-mill knight who wears old-fashioned armor, travels with a hot-water bottle and suffers from nosebleed after battle. Head up, though run down after his encounter with the dragon, he is lucky enough to beat the daylights out of another knight and win a second fair maid. This doubles his troubles. With two women to choose between, Sir Henry becomes the eternal, quintessential male - totally...