Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interest and modicum of speaking ability should be the only standards for membership, since the group should be more concerned with training itself than impressing the public. There should be some graduate students, to boost the level of debate, but not so many as would shadow undergraduate efforts. Although a good share of the members will hold membership cards in existing political clubs, none of the congress's parties should attach itself to them. For that might scare off the very silent partners on the college political scene the congress is supposed to attract. Selecting initial membership from the Houses...
British Poet-Critic Stephen Spender, 43, who once described himself as "a middle-aged man in the center of life and rotted by a modicum of success," was appointed to fill the 1953 George Elliston Professorship at the University of Cincinnati. Spender, now lecturing in Brazil, will take the chair in February...
With this modicum of inconvenience, Harkness interhouse could soon begin. Besides offering a change in menu, it would narrow the social gap between the undergraduate and the graduate student...
...label "Operation Quagmire," Matt Ridgway put out a bitter analysis of the Communist truce tactics: "The Communist plan...has called for a temporary show of progress following each period of complete delay. The Communists have known that, at certain times throughout the talks, they must inject a certain modicum of achievement as the price for their main program of bargaining inertia. This is part of the Communist war of nerves. Hope must be raised and dashed .according to schedule" (TIME, Feb. 18). This analysis seemed correct at the time; it still seems so today...
...worthy production would demand Fry's own intangible sense of beauty, and it is this sense which is too lacking in the H.D.C.-Canterbury Player version. Considering that most of the players have had little acting experience. Director Lester Gilmore deserves much praise for bringing out a modicum of good drama. Most polished of his performers are the comical John Kettlewell and Janet Sobel; Robert E. Brasbares in the lead role has flashes of brilliance, but his delivery is too often forensic...