Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still way is scratching out only a few bars a day in his modest Los Angeles home. His great enthusiasm is opera: he has written four, but none has ever been published. One of them, Troubled Island, with a libretto adapted from a play by Poet Langston Hughes, was rejected by the Metropolitan, says Still, because it called for an all-Negro cast. "They never heard of makeup, I guess...
...loudly trumpeted musicals, Allegro and Inside U.S.A., reached Broadway with $500,000 or more already in the till; but far more modest musicals like Make Mine Manhattan and Angel in the Wings proved much better fun. The classics provided some rewarding evenings (Medea, Antony and Cleopatra, The Alchemist) and there was enough Shaw for a minor festival...
...sense of power and glory that was Britain and might be Britain still is not in these men. They seem too humble even for middleclass, easygoing Scarborough, and much too modest for its Grand Hotel. Yet these modest men indubitably believe themselves the architects of a greater Britain, followers of a loftier vision than Pitt or Disraeli or Churchill...
...indeed, fit British hopes for the Middle East: they need a secure corridor from the Mediterranean (probable outlet: Gaza) through friendly Hashimite kingdoms to the oil and bases of Iraq. As long as they hold Abdullah's purse strings, they will try to hold Abdullah to this more modest plan. Said a British official in Amman last week: "The Legion will be very prudent. We want no wild adventures." Britain's subsidy of $8,000,000 a year still continues, and the Legion's British commander, Major General John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), was still in Amman...
...lusty London, the play tells of three high-flying cheats, one of whom professes to be an alchemist, and of the brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous and stupendous visions of sensuality...