Word: modestly
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Greene's first published novel, The Man Within (1929), enjoyed a modest success and was made into a film. This pattern was to be repeated throughout his career, for Greene and the movies virtually grew up together. He learned the economies of filmed narration -- the quick cuts, the disembodied perspective, the interpolated conversations -- used them in his books and then saw them re-employed in adaptations of his own work on the screen...
...private lives, how much fun was the past decade? For most Americans it was a time of struggling to keep up with everyone who seemed to be making it big. Now that the bubble of financial speculation has burst, people should -- and do -- feel entitled to accept more modest aspirations. The real estate market was a prime example of a 1980s torture track. Americans started thinking of housing as a vehicle for getting rich, rather than as just shelter, and it became an obsession. Author Ann Beattie, a chronicler of the baby boom, fled Manhattan in the mid-1980s...
Hence I have a modest proposal to end--at least for the time being--the space shortage: convert the studies into shelf space. When the University finds a more long-term solution--such as an expansion of Pusey or the construction of a new library, it can build a lot of nice new faculty offices as part of the plan. In the meantime, no one will have to be turned out in the street. It's a crazy idea, but it just might work...
Most American police are decent men and women doing honorable service. It is partly for that reason that the transformation from group to mob, as in Los Angeles, is hard to understand. But the dangerous work that they do, for modest salaries, is also brutalizing. The American homicide rate has jumped from 5 per 100,000 population in 1960 to 9 per 100,000 in 1989. In big cities two-thirds of felony defendants have been arrested before, and about half of them had at least one prior conviction. Drug gangs are often armed with automatic weapons more lethal than...
Saddam is not the only one worried about the Kurds; the allies, who, by enfeebling Saddam, made the Kurdish victories possible, are concerned too. The Kurdish leadership professes a modest aim -- autonomy within a democratic Iraq. But suspicions run deep that the real agenda is, as it has been in the past, independence, a break from Baghdad clean and neat. That is an outcome $ none of the allies desire. For one thing, they do not want to be held responsible for Iraq's partition. For another, the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iran and the Soviet Union might come down with...