Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nerve damage that results in the patient's tremor, muscle rigidity, forward-falling posture, hasty gait and "pill-rolling" movements of the fingers. As with most diseases of which the basic causes are unknown, there is a yard-long list of drugs that have been tried; some give modest relief, but all fall far short of cure. Even radical brain surgery usually relieves only some of the symptoms. Now a new drug has been found that is more effective in most cases than earlier medicines and promises real progress in future Parkinsonism treatment, once it is thoroughly tested. Unfortunately...
Though he is clearly a sectional candidate, Wallace has won surprising support in all parts of the country. Though he appeals primarily to what he calls the "rednecks, pea pickers, peckerwoods and crackers," mostly people of modest means, he has had no trouble raking in substantial sums for campaign expenditures. And though he is almost universally derided in print and on TV, he only grows stronger, turning the scorn of the "pseudo intellectuals" to his own advantage among those who have always distrusted the press...
...Mysteries and Smaller Pieces mysteriously proves, the Living Theater is a shock-troop army of the avant-garde dedicated to overthrowing the Establishment and conventional drama. Founded and led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the company had a modest off-Broadway success until it was closed down by the Internal Revenue Service in a 1963 dispute over back taxes. The troupe has been touring Europe ever since (TIME, Dec. 1, 1967). Last week it reappeared at the Yale School of Drama...
Throughout most of a typical performance, the English rock quartet called The Who live up to their own modest billing: "A good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group." Their beat is tight and jabbing, their guitar backings crisp. Their songs (Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles) aim to divert listeners rather than convert them. Un like current groups performing along the protest-and-prophecy axis, they do not come on like four hoarse men of the Apocalypse. Not at first...
Only a few months ago, hardly any one much cared how Charles Quitman Stephens, 57, chose to lead his life. An unemployed bulldozer operator, Stephens drew a veteran's modest pension from the Government, lived alone in a room rented for $10 a week in downtown Memphis, and had a reputation for drinking. Stephens would have continued to attract small notice had he not been present in his rooming house on the afternoon that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death while standing on a motel balcony a few hundred feet away...