Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article in effect accuses Professor Ford of defending modern German history as his personal preserve; Mr. Higonnet was allegedly promoted because he did not know German history (more nonsense); Professor Stern's candidacy is supposed to have failed because he did know German history. Yet even a modest inquiry would have revealed that Professor Ford's area of special interest is early modern French and German history; that this is where he has made his contribution to historiography; and that he teaches modern German history at considerable-additional effort. Far from clinging to the subject, he has devoted...
...hardly be written off as a total failure. Even outgoing Deputy Treasury Secretary Charls Walker, who once named the training programs as his "personal favorite" for elimination in a federal economy drive, figures that they have lowered the nation's jobless rate by one-half of 1%. Modest as that figure seems, it is really a striking achievement, because many of the trainees might otherwise have drifted onto the welfare rolls or into prison...
...intention of quitting. These days he is busy touring the college campuses, playing festivals like the Newport Jazz Festival, and invading major concert halls in such cities as Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and, of course, New York. In between, he "rests up" in his modest, nine-room house in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and sometimes lets his mind wander back over times gone by. Like the night when he was eight and thought there was a ghost in the backyard. Actually, it was a white shirt hanging on the clothesline. His father took him outside, made...
...modest collection. Still, Walter Benjamin, unpacking his library, noted that "the chance, the fate, that suffuse the past before my eyes are conspicuously present in the accustomed confusion of these books." And there is, embedded in such infirm companions, a subtle aura, reminiscent of the sorrow which leaps up from the pages of old photograph albums: it could be called the aesthetic composition of a moment in time, where all the properties of a retrieved past appear in the present eidetic, solemn, and ill-at-ease...
Goals are indispensable for keeping our progress in perspective. If department X hires one woman, this can be properly seen as modest progress, not the end to department X's affirmative action efforts...