Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prove it? The proof that something is not happening is always difficult. Without being naive, longtime watchers of Congress and the bureaucracy insist that what is really remarkable is the general absence of corruption. Most of the 100 U.S. Senators and 435 Congressmen live in modest circumstances, work hard, and earn every penny of their scarcely extravagant salaries. So do the vast majority of the unsung bureaucrats and local officials. In the past dozen years, only a handful of Senators and Congressmen have been accused-let alone convicted-of corruption or outright crimes. Given the parade of temptations, the siren...
...city machines, forever symbolized by Boss Tweed, were rotten, but some also performed necessary social functions. The Teapot Dome affair of Harding's Administration, the freezer and coat giveaways of the Truman and Eisenhower eras, were corrupt acts based on organized greed, some massive, some relatively modest. Watergate is a far greater malignancy. These conspirators wanted to short-circuit the electoral and judicial processes, to rewrite the book on national security, to manipulate the standards of ethics and morality...
GOVERNOR NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER, 64, stands to gain by his remoteness from Watergate. Likely to win an unprecedented fifth term as Governor of New York, Rocky may have a modest chance of stopping Connally-and Republican Conservatives Spiro Agnew and Ronald Reagan-provided that he can rally moderate Republicans behind...
Love derives much of its strength from the fine accumulation of gesture and detail that Director Makk has worked into the modest fabric of his story. An old lady (Lili Darvas), nearly 100 and dying with dignity and resignation from the kind of fatigue that cannot be diagnosed or reversed, lies all day in her bed, tended by a maid and by her daughter-in-law Luca (Mari Torocsik). The old lady lives in a twilight of memory, where past and present tend to flow together into a kind of future-imperfect tense. The room is kept clean and carefully...
...nervous. A bust of Abraham Lincoln and a photo of Nixon's family had been placed within camera range. The occasion was reminiscent of Nixon's celebrated Checkers speech of 1952, in which he admitted that he had drawn on a secret $18,000 campaign fund (an almost touchingly modest figure by current measurement) that had been donated by California political supporters, but denied using it for any personal, nonpolitical purpose...