Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freedom of Choice. As Gernsback inventions go, the new multi-eyed TV set is of modest flair. It is a conventional set with built-in satellites, intended to solve the problems of TV critics, network executives who want to scout the opposition, watchers of election returns, and families engaged in intramural brawls over who wants what channel. In the middle of Gernsback's new set is the big traditional eye, and flanking it are vertical rows of small, 3-in. screens, as many as are necessary to cover all channels that broadcast in the owner's area. This...
...royalties from his book (it has sold at least 80,000 copies and has been translated into French, Polish and Russian), Harrington has retired from his post as editor of the Socialist paper, New America, and is writing a new book on decadence in the lower classes. Always modest, he says he had no idea that The Other America would be so influential. When asked if his life is different now that he has become an American cause celebre, Harrington commented only that "it's a little bit more hectic." Although his dedication to the poor forces him to accept...
Eight years ago Mississipian Bill Higgs graduated from Harvard Law School with modest grades, unpretentious ambitions, and an unshaken faith in racism. He served an Army stint and disappeared quietly into a Jackson, Mississippi law practice. Today he is one of Washington's most militant lobbyists for integration, an attorney for SNCC, and the author of several titles of the present civil rights bill. As his close friend, Roy Wilkins, noted here last week: "When a Southerner changes, he's very thorough about...
Roger Micheldene is a plump package of just about everything Americans find detestable in a U-type Englishman. He is expensively accented (Oxford), twice married, with a modest homosexual past, a nonchurchgoing Roman Catholic, but a devout snob and a glutton, a sexman and a Potterish ployman of epic pretensions. His exploits in one-upmanship take the form of a baroque conversational style, impeccable scholarship in cigars, and a collection of snuffboxes with appropriate snuff (antelope horn for the Otterburn mix). He hates progress, Protestants, Negroes, Jews, Americans, today and tomorrow. Such a man, Amis implies, has done very nicely...
...whole arbitration process often takes only a few weeks. Where speed is urgent, the Arbitration Association can arrange a quick hearing and get a conflict resolved within a few days or even a few hours. The resulting savings in legal costs often more than cover the A.A.A.'s modest fees, which are based on the amount of money in question: the fee in a $1,000,000 case would come to only...