Word: modeste
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Despite its impressive accomplishments and imposing title, the center has surprisingly modest resources. Besides the OEO grant, it gets some money from foundations-used mostly to pay staggering travel expenses. It is housed in a refurbished Columbia University apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and its full-time professional staff is composed of only eight young lawyers (average age 28). All could be getting good salaries on Wall Street, but they agree with Director Albert when he says: "I wanted to do something relevant." Albert, who earns $17,000 a year, went to Yale Law School, clerked...
Behind this modest claim lies what some observers have heralded, perhaps overoptimistically, as a third revolution in mental health. The first was the medical discovery, less than two centuries ago, that the insane were neither criminals nor possessed by demons but sick people whom chains could never heal. The second was Freud's insights into the emotional topography of the mind. The third is crisis intervention: a radical and still experimental attempt to try emotional first aid on someone who seems headed straight for a mental institution. Says Dr. Edward Stainbrook, chairman of the department of psychiatry...
...Linguist Stewart's eyes, this modest and unplanned experiment is one more proof of a challenging and controversial thesis put forward by a small and informal coterie of investigators who call themselves "the Cultural Mafia." Afro-American culture, they contend, is not a poor imitation of its white American counterpart but a fully developed life-style of its own. By their reasoning, the origin of the little girl's reading trouble is really simple: compared with her customary ghetto speech, standard English is virtually a foreign language...
...loophole closing as merely papering over tax-system defects that ought to be attacked through more basic changes. The Administration concedes that it has made only a "first stage" effort, to be followed by fuller reform recommendations by the Treasury this fall. Though it disappoints tax-reform idealists, the modest first stage balances the claims of opposing interests deftly enough to make it politically palatable. It also goes much further toward genuine tax reform than almost anyone had expected...
...running record of world events. In 1927 he began unaided A Study of History, which in twelve volumes describes and attempts to explain the dynamics of human civilization from man's beginning on earth. His account of the harrowing regimen necessary to pursue such work is typically modest and practical, studded with such advice as "Don't waste odd pieces of time" and "Write regularly." One point that he might have stressed more is the need for persistence, which his own literary practice dramatically illustrates: in 1913, he began taking notes for a book, Hannibal's Legacy...