Word: modicum
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This is the Crimson's last conference game for Dec. A win gives Harvard a measure of confidence to take into the Christmas break and a small modicum of consistency lacking all year...
Every president, particularly a martyred one like John F. Kennedy, deserves a modicum of respect. The measure of any leader ought to be his stewardship in office and his ability to put the public good ahead of private gain. But, sadly, every President since Washington has had "debunkers," like Seymour Hersh in his new book about Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot [NATION, Nov. 17]. Such authors are all too willing to embellish the facts to besmirch the personal life of the individuals who have held America's highest elective office. JOHN T. BERNSTEIN SR. Bloomington...
Mograbi's metamorphosis is hilarious. Initially an unwelcome member of the Sharon entourage, his sheer persistence in shadowing Sharon wins Mograbi a modicum of acceptance from staffers and finally from Sharon himself. He starts to dream of Sharon, picturing himself an intimate of the Sharon family. Some shots of Mograbi as he supervises the filming of campaign events show him nodding his head as he intently listens to Sharon;s speeches. By the end of the film he is out of control, dancing wildly to an Israeli pop version of "Na Na, Hey Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye" at a political...
Fortunately, however, the election has retained a modicum of intrigue thanks to its status as a testing ground for a developing liberal response to Republican governance. It all began in late summer, when a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was brutalized by New York City police officers. The officers attacked him savagely, first beating him and then sodomizing him with a toilet plunger. During the incident, one of the officers allegedly remarked, "It's Giuliani time,"suggesting that the Mayor had embraced a laissez faire attitude toward police brutality. Finally, the embattled New York liberals had their issue...
...plot is hardly a consolation when the scenes on which it depends can hardly command a modicum of even vague interest from readers. True, the novel's pages bleed together, but Bleeding London is a wounded creature. A writer once said of Ezra Pound, "he is a great poet who has never written a great poem." In the world of lyric prose, Nicholson neither leads nor follows. Rather, he occupies that awkward region in between--usually above reproach, seldom awe-inspiring--where many decent writers languish in anonymity. Bleeding London is, well, bloody awful...