Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cautious Amorist, Norman Lindsay wrote a neat little novel recounting in realistic terms what would actually happen to three men and a pretty woman on a desert island. An Australian, an artist and an expert plot-builder, Author Lindsay worked it out plausibly: the three men were soon at each other's throats, each knew himself preferred, and as for the lady, nobody knew what she thought. Illustrating this story with his vigorous sketches, Author Lindsay managed to keep its satire good-natured without dulling its edge. Last week, in Age of Consent, he repeated his performance with another...
This time the hero is a cautious, bearded, monosyllabic Australian artist named Bradly Mudgett-a hardworking, penniless, single-minded solitary whose great aspiration is to be allowed to work in peace. Because it is cheap, Mudgett rents a shack on a deserted beach, hoards his little store of paint and canvas, worries more about his money running out than he does about his painting. As Lindsay admirers could have guessed, the beach soon fills up with odd characters: a runaway bank clerk who sponges off Mudgett; a gin-drinking old harridan who spies on him; a tawny-haired, brown-legged...
...Wyeth, part real-estate ad, part history, part guide book, all of it unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...
Because the 16 stories in Southways show less of Erskine Caldwell's customary satanic humor and forthright sexual symbolism, and because a number of them have appeared in such cautious magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, some readers may conclude that Caldwell is mellowing into a merely successful writer. Examined more closely, they warrant another guess. More skilful, briefer than Caldwell's last collection, Kneel to the Rising Sun (1935), they suggest that Caldwell is feeling his way toward a less stylized, less repetitious, more complex kind of writing...
Meanwhile in Quarryville, Pa. met the small, Machenite Presbyterian Church in America. Its members elected as their Moderator a stiff-haired, stiff-backed Netherlander who was nominated as a man "on whom the mantle of Dr. Machen has to some extent fallen." This was cautious praise. Dr. Rienk Bouke.Kuiper, 52, was a good friend of Dr. Machen. taught at Westminster Seminary which his friend founded, succeeded him as chairman of its faculty. Along with other Machenites, Moderator Kuiper last week viewed the election of Stated Clerk Pugh as proof that they had done well to leave the Presbyterian Church...