Word: modestly
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...technique rather than a metaphysic, analysis rejects the traditional approach to such philosophic questions as the nature of being or the meaning of life, which they say cannot be studied in such universal terms at all. Instead, analysis limits itself to a modest but possibly more productive intellectual task: discovering the meaning of words and sentences by examining how they are ordinarily used, and by classifying different kinds of statements. Linguistic analysis grew out of a philosophic movement which had no use for theology: logical positivism. Such philosophers as A. J. Ayer of Oxford and Vienna's Rudolf Carnap...
Mutual Suspicion. Buyers are few, for European businessmen still have a royalist attitude toward broad public ownership by modest investors. A few Swiss chemical shares sell for $10,000 apiece, and no effort is made to split them to widen ownership. Hoping to keep out of the public eye, Belgium's biggest producers of chemicals, matches, beer and sugar do not even list their shares on the Brussels Bourse. The tra dition of secrecy is stronger than the desire to attract mattress money; European companies commonly report only the skimpiest information about profits or forthcoming products. The suspicion...
...trying to do something about students obviously uninterested in learning. Last month the University Council began a crackdown, adopting a "repeater's rule," which expels any engineering student failing two subjects twice or one subject three times. Rector Jesus María Bianco thinks that the reform, modest though it seems, is long overdue. And he intends to make it stick...
...week's end, with all counties still not heard from, the topless suit remained a most delicate issue. As with Fanny Hill, the meek trembled while the smart set shrugged. English Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick got practical and confused things even more. "I'm too modest to wear a topless suit," said she, "but it actually would be more comfortable. It would be even more comfortable to swim without the bot tom as well...
Curiously, however, the play may well build to a long and financially successful run. With just one modest set and three actors, it can break even merely by taking in $12,000 a week, or 27% of the theater's capacity. It is not grossing even that much yet, but its audience-which began with a pittance advance sale of $165-is promisingly growing. Broadway pros would have folded it, but Gilroy and his novice producer, Edgar Lansbury, are determined to take the gamble that the play will more than recover its present losses. "All these Broadway experts would...