Word: modicums
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...else can one consider the wealth of material that must be skimmed. The reading is a mosaic of short bits which fill in the ordinarily dull background of the lectures. The temporal scope of the material begins in colonial days with a certain amount of sentimental reading and a modicum of neat scholarly accounts. The course teaches the why and wherefor of some of the quirks of American intellects, after defining in ten sentences the constitution of an American. On the whole the work is entertaining for we are not more than three generations away from much...
There is of course a modicum of plot, but when the bacillus, at the end of Act 1, announces that "The play is now virtually at an end, but the actors will discuss it at length for two acts more," some are willing to add with him that "the exits are all in order." Tuesday night no one followed his hint, though in the final soliloquy there were some who gave up and left. For only in the last act does Shaw cry out in a loud voice what his puppets (and most of them were but taken...
...true that the larger breweries in this same middle-western city were installing new brewing machinery against the golden day when once again the workers of the land might seek and find solace in the foamy, varnish-colored beverage. Our acquaintance assured him that there was at least a modicum of truth in the report, and his janitor sighed deeply and departed...
...Every regime in the world, even the Turkish and Afghan, allows its subjects a modicum of liberty. Fascism alone, in self defense, is obliged to annihilate all thought...
...other attractions on the bill enliven with a modicum of success a programme that just misses being out and out dull...