Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the beginning, last week's Common Market summit was called the "summit of modest expectations." Faced with the most severe complex of crises since the European Community was set up 17 years ago, the heads of the nine countries would succeed in Paris, according to one rather gloomy line of reasoning, if they did nothing more than agree to stay together. In the end, they did just that-and a little bit more-in what might be described as a summit of modest results...
most rock women lead relatively modest lives. Wendy Waldman, 24, who began her career singing Proud Mary in a nude bowling alley, lives in a stone cottage in Los Angeles' rural Topanga Canyon. The songs she writes deal mostly with wandering and the road, probably because her house is so small that there is barely room for her piano, dulcimer and guitar...
...team encountered no political interference. Says Tachibana: "We went to tax offices and census registration bureaus, bowed to the officials, paid a modest fee for copying and came back with a treasure-house of information...
...American misery and hope-ghetto Jews and child pieceworkers in the verminous cellars of New York, riggers on the high steel, the corridors of Ellis Island and the mine tunnels of Pennsylvania-Lewis Hine, once a schoolteacher but also one of America's great reformist photographers, gave his modest definition of "concerned" photography. All arts, in theory, have some social resonance. But documentary photography is uniquely a social act, for its sole purpose is to make people concrete to each other...
...radical accommodation that neither the Arabs nor the Israelis have yet found acceptable. The first step could be a very simple one: a withdrawal by the Israelis of only four or five kilometers on the Golan Heights, to permit a widening of the U.N. buffer zone. Such a modest gesture, high U.S. officials believe, could be the Confucian first step that could lead to the necessary 10,000 miles of negotiation. For Yitzhak Rabin, the challenge will be to compromise, to conciliate, perhaps even to try to deal with his people's ultimate enemies, to decide whether to renounce...