Word: modicums
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...advancement of the theatre in this community; nor could any but his close associates be expected to realize his whole-hearted commitment to the Loeb Drama Center, both before and after its actual construction. But it is certainly reasonable to expect that a student newspaper will exercise a modicum of restraint before allowing allegations as spurious as those regarding Mr. Aaron to be printed in their columns as fact...
...famed for. The Graham company offered two new numbers: a rollicking, Shakespeare-inspired romp called One More Gaudy Night, and Visionary Recital, a somewhat murky exposition on the three faces of Delilah (Awakener, Betrayer, Seducer) in which Martha Graham (as Awakener) triumphed over her 67 years with a modicum of disciplined effort. Neither of them was topflight Graham but both were performed with top-drawer skill that kept overflow audiences applauding long after the curtain came down...
Automation without strife is not a matter of what management does but how management does it. In the auto industry, Autoworkers President Walter Reuther early took the position: "We do not oppose the introduction of more efficient technology. We do insist, however, that a modicum of social responsibility be exercised in its introduction." Taking Reuther at his word, the auto companies in 1958 put in their contract provisions for early retirement as well as severance pay when machines displace workers. The Big Three also gave displaced workers first crack at new automated jobs, and Ford eliminated the 27-year...
Hoping to keep up with the hot spirit of independence that is racing through the Congo like fire in dry bush, Belgium is holding elections there in December to offer a modicum of local self-rule, as a forerunner of a promised national government by Africans in 1964. But Congolese Africans, in a land 99% black, are impatiently several jumps ahead of the process...
...postpone a summit. The first is a fundamental disagreement with Britain and the U.S. over what a summit should be. Macmillan, in particular, talks of a series of summits, none of which would be make-or-break. De Gaulle, who believes that familiarity breeds contempt and that a certain modicum of mystery is essential to governing, sees the summit as a single 'grand encounter" that must be "carefully prepared"; as he expressed it in a communiqué last week, there should be an effective reduction of tension before a summit...