Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tens his life story in a simple, modest account in Organize! My Life as a Union Man. His unique capacity for personalization may fool the reader into discounting Mortimer's role in the UAW. No one should be mistaken: Wyndham Mortimer was a giant of the labor movement. He was so effective an organizer that his so-called allies in labor had to silence him. His fighting spirit shines in Organize! He recalls an incident when he first arrived in Flint, Michigan, to organize the GM plant there and was greeted by a phone threat on his life. "How would...
That was a modest response to the smoldering nationalist resentment against "domination" of the Canadian economy by U.S. business. The Canadian Cabinet had considered much tougher proposals, which would have given Ottawa control over the flow of investment to start plants in Canada or expand subsidiaries already operating there. But the Cabinet rejected those ideas. Executives of U.S. companies that have poured $28 billion into Canada-mostly by setting up wholly owned subsidiaries instead of buying out Canadian companies-noted that the new policy will have no direct effect on their operations, or on the $1.8 billion in earnings that...
...their splashdown, the astronauts answered reporters' questions relayed by Mission Control during a televised press conference. "We've seen as much in ten days," Young concluded, "as most people see in ten lifetimes." He may have been too modest. For all of the mission's mishaps, the information gathered during the flight of Apollo 16 may well enable man to "see" back to the very beginnings of his world...
...reaucrats, up with neighborhood government - Novak seems on sounder ground, though he fails to prove that ethnic self-consciousness is the key. What validates the book is Novak's very recklessness - his willingness to sweep beyond defendable limits. This is the price he knowingly pays for a modest act of hope at a time when most intellectuals are playing it safe with predictions of Apocalypse. "There is a great deal yet to be discovered about America," Novak concludes. He has, in fact, attacked the American Dream in order to open up a possible second chapterfor it. Melvin Maddocks
...Orchid Pavilon," was begun over 20 years ago. Only its first section, the "Opus Dei," composed of the poems following the offices of the day, has the sustained internal coherence necessary to approach the consistent outlook of Dream Songs, and those eight poems are on a much more modest scale. In this final book, Berryman has created no character of the engaging importance of Henry-Mr. Bones, the narrator-leader of Dream Songs. Instead, he has gathered a varied collection of poems...