Word: modicums
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...appeal to the courts, the American Civil Liberties Union called the law an unparalleled affront to the constitutional right to vote. It was, said the A.C.L.U. attorney, "repressive of the most fundamental freedoms of speech and assembly"; it attempts to punish by legislation without giving its intended victims "a modicum of procedures to defend themselves." In an amicus curiae memorandum, the Justice Department indirectly supported the A.C.L.U.'s case. It said that the Communist Control Act barred the party but not individual Communists from the ballot...
Socialists, Too. Humphrey could take a modicum of cheer from some signs of Democratic reunion. Fortnight ago, most party leaders in Texas and State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh in California declined to appear with...
...time to forestall an epidemic. But chances are it will not be ready until January. One serviceman returning from Viet Nam has already carried the new flu home to Georgia. In the meantime, doctors will have to rely on the old vaccine, which at best can provide only a modicum of protection...
Reassuring Words. While the Soviets were trying to create at least a modicum of government over the recalcitrant Czechoslovaks, the destiny of the nation's reformist vision of Communism was being debated behind closed doors in both Prague and Moscow. Dubcek and Cernik were flown off to Moscow in a Soviet military jet. The Czechoslovaks at first broadcast reports that Dubcek had been killed, but that was cleared up in one of the many weird, almost unreal vignettes of the week. Dubcek's mother marched in to see the local Soviet commander in Bratislava, demanding to know what the Russians...
...continuation based on his knowledge of and empathy with the master's style. Mozart's most essential and yet most elusive quality is balance, the result of his unique musical genius. Though it can be emulated, it can never be reproduced. Notwithstanding certain lapses of taste--e.g., a modicum of Beethovenian bravura at the conclusion of the cadenza--and lack of classical proportion, the prodigiousness of the feat was unquestionable...