Word: immodestly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ENVIRONMENT: An immodest proposal to banish smog...
...called himself "the best playwright ever to have defended a murderer at the Central Criminal Court." The claim is neither entirely immodest nor self-deprecating. It is English Author John Mortimer's way of pointing out that the careers he has pursued seldom overlap. A barrister who became a Queen's Counsel and practiced in the loftiest reaches of the British legal system, he might also be described as the best lawyer ever to write for the stage (A Voyage Round My Father), screen (John and Mary) and television (Brideshead Revisited, Rumpole of the Bailey). Now Mortimer, 62, has earned...
...very precise antibodies, the disease-fighting guided missiles of the immune system. The technique, said Authors César Milstein and Georges Köhler of the Medical Research Council Laboratory in Cambridge, England, "could be valuable for medical and industrial use," although Milstein worried about such conjecture being "immodest...
This dual publication appears to be as reckless as it is immodest. In 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, Britain's Anthony Burgess sets up a personal pantheon of later 20th century fiction; then, in Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby, he offers the latest sample of his own handiwork in that line...
Exactly that sweeping solution-and a worldwide government of unspecified political complexion to carry it out-is the immodest proposal of the antinuclear movement's rallying point, Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth. The book first appeared as three articles in The New Yorker and met wide acclaim among opinion leaders. Walter Cronkite said it "may be one of the most important works of recent years." Washington Post Columnist Mary McGrory said that the book was "working its way into the national psyche." Even journalists who disagreed with Schell's call for disarmament, like Columnist...