Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCurdy's not known for being particularly modest down at the track, but in fact, few people are aware of his past athletic achievements...
Thus two cheers-or perhaps a modest wall poster?-for Chairman...
Though Riccardo is confident that Chrysler has turned the corner, he is making only modest predictions about the future-and with good reason: Chrysler has long been a boom-and-bust company, and bankruptcy talk has been around before. Says the chairman: "The aim of this management group is to put ourselves in the kind of financial, operating and marketing shape so that as the industry goes through these cyclical fluctuations, we will be relatively no worse off than anyone else." For the industry, he foresees a return to 1973's record level of car sales (11.5 million...
Friends recall being a bit surprised, however, when they saw his house in Plaquemines parish, adjacent to New Orleans. He had told people his father had left him millions and he did have a nice car and lots of spending money, but the house was so . . . modest...
Updike's vision is a modest one, humorously self-tolerant, seeing in the writer's work a way of life which, if no longer world-jarring, is at least meaningful to himself and a few others. The heyday of the Victorian novel is past; the effort to capture the rush of perishable existence died with Joyce and Lawrence; the author-as-hero is gone with Camus and Hemingway; and in their place is now the professional writer, making a living like anyone else. This is a truthful image because, as Updike remarks in "One Big Interview...