Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kathleen Kinkade emphasizes throughout that the revolution her group is interested in making is a relatively modest one--there is no room for "dreamers," nature freaks, or ideologists in Twin Oaks. The 40 community members face up to "responsibility," embrace technology and efficiency, and pursue their dreams and pleasures privately. But Kinkade spices this somewhat bland concoction with bits of B.F. Skinner. What we are really trying to do, she says, is create a community following the instructions set down in Walden Two: first, shape the individual's desires and behavior by use of controlled reinforcements (that is, utilize reward...
...wonderful rule," said Hisle, whose career batting average is a modest .236. Pirates' Manager Bill Virdon, who will not have to contend with the innovation once the regular season begins, had a different view: "It's not fair, playing nine men against...
Fine, but this would require a modest amount of new funds, of which, the administration say, none are available. And this is the crux of the issue: so long as there is no more money available, no plan for financing graduate education will be entirely satisfactory. There is, however, a middle ground, and graduate students contend that the Kraus Plan does not occupy this position...
...shape Eurocar? But a lot of Europe's beaches had been acquired by holiday camps, and seaside property had become hideously expensive. If only Father had remembered Mark Twain's excellent advice on how to make money: "Buy land; they've stopped making it." Even a modest plot, bought in 1973, was worth 20 times its original price...
...Liebman, who produced Your Show of Shows, has compiled this film with a craftsman's eye for pacing the laughter. It begins slowly, with a modest bit of domestic conflict in which Imogene Coca, looking, as ever, like your high-school dietician, must tell Caesar, her husband, that she has wrecked his beloved car. From there the film builds rapidly to an unlikely skirmish in a movie theater, a board meeting presided over by a chairman concerned only with his lunch, and a fond parody of a silent film called The Sewing Machine Girl. Finally there...