Word: modicums
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...film has its suspense and even a modicum of mystery, and surely more than a fair share of good, snappy lines. But what most distinguishes it are the fantastic creations of Messrs. Price and Webb. They, much more than the much-heralded theme song, are the haunting quality of Laura...
...nursery-school level. But discipline? Ah, that's a dirty word and used only to describe the old Prussian army . . . But the greatest loss of all has been good, old-fashioned common sense. Without this, the genius becomes stupid in society, and the stupid, with just a modicum of it, can raise his I.Q. . . . Today, junior's hotspot is no longer his little red bottom. It's his little psyche that gets all the attention . . . and, up to now, no one has ever given any thought to what all this has been doing to mother...
...childlike quality that is perfect") and Broadway's Barry Nelson "He's the handsome, rugged American male"). Like most family comedies, Husband is long on character, short on plot, and played for laughs. It does buck a few popular trends: unlike most TV husbands, Nelson has a modicum of intelligence and, unlike most TV wives, Joan is some distance ahead of the usual lovable idiot...
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...