Word: cautionings
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Reston has come up with a series of valid criticisms and suggestions for the readjustment of the press to present-day realities and challenges, but I think it is necessary to sound a note of caution concerning such a fundamental change in the "fourth branch of government." Reston has failed to answer one of the obvious questions which emerges after reading his bold suggestions. Where does one draw the line between educational analysis in newspapers and mere propaganda...
...controversy will rage until educators produce reliable studies of the long-range effects of parental preschool teaching. No one knows whether a grasp of algebra at five makes a boy a sharper mathematician at 25. Meanwhile, all the experts urge caution-and even Doman and the Engelmanns concede that impatient parents, who tense up when Timmy says "saw" as he looks at the word was, ought to forget the whole thing...
...said in one of the manifestoes on expecting some reciprocity. "I'll die first before I decay," he told a national magazine this month. Since the turn against ideology announced in Opus 4's "My Back has been true--if nothing else--to the caution sounded on that album in "Ramons...
Abbott Laboratories commented with commendable caution that "it is still a long road from these first results to the ultimate evaluation in humans of an experimental drug of this type." Equally cautious was the University of Michigan's Dr. John Burns, who has been testing healthy subjects, mostly students, to find out whether Cylert can improve the normal memory of the young. Since Cylert is a stimulant, it enhances alertness; Dr. Burns wants to see whether it also increases the power to acquire knowledge and, if so, whether such increased power persists...
...slips ashore to commandeer a launch and stays to persuade the island's crotchety nor'easterners that a full-scale invasion has begun. Taking over a tailor shop, subduing a telephone operator (Tessie O'Shea), Arkin's response to crisis is a cunning blend of caution, mad sweetness and reluctant acts of aggression, all booby-trapped with nuance about the love-hate relationship between East and West. Though many of his lines are in Russian (hastily acquired for this role), his Red-roving English is a comic wonder, spoken with the don't-look-back...