Word: modicum
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Those who attribute some modicum of dignity to the human condition were profoundly saddened Jan. 19, when it became known that Yale University undergraduates are in the early stages of producing and directing a pornographic movie. The participants in the movie--one hesitates to call them "actors"--are to be drawn from the ranks of the Yale student body, meaning that the film will be almost entirely composed of Yale undergraduates removing their clothing and performing sexual acts. We at The Crimson, filled by the very prospect with existential terror, can only hope that the production will at some point...
Airline travel today can be hazardous to your health. Isn't it time that the long-suffering coach-class travelers make some demands on the international airlines? How about giving us a modicum of extra seating space to improve comfort in what I call the cattle class? And what about cleaner, fresher cabin air to lessen the likely spread of bacterial infections? It is ironic that we probably experienced a better quality of cabin air before smoking was prohibited. SYLVIA GON Johannesburg...
...hospitals in which basic elements of public health are ignored serve as vectors for epidemics. There never would have been an Ebola epidemic in Kikwit had there not been a looted, decrepit hospital into which the first handful of cases were admitted. Once inside a facility that lacked any modicum of hygienic practices the virus spread rapidly, first claiming large numbers of health care workers, and then their patients...
...think with all those votes on the line our concerns would be addressed with a modicum of gravity. Listened to. Consulted. You'd think the candidates would be lining up at our doors to showcase their policies on health care, education, Social Security. But you'd be wrong. Instead of crunching our numbers, the candidates are kissing our babies. They're wearing earth tones and soft pastel ties. They're going on "Oprah," for God's sake...
...Fire is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it or listening to someone else read it aloud requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...