Word: immodest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-part tunes with such titles as In a Crowd; Valeria; Wintertale, a trip of the tongue that describes only sketchy excerpts from a film score. Whatever he touched turned out so well that he soon found himself a prisoner of his own achievements. "I hate to sound immodest," he said, "but the quartet has reached a standard so high that I don't see what anyone else can do with small-ensemble jazz...
When Arkansas' Senator John McClellan asked Cooper if he felt qualified for his new post, the witness replied: "Senator, immodest though this sounds, my answer is yes." Seated by Cooper's side throughout his testimony was Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and Cooper's sponsor. Invited to testify, Celler praised Cooper's record and declared: "Any man whose blood does not at times grow hot at the sight of evil or in the presence of utter incompetence isn't worth a pinch of snuff...
When Mintoff tried to boost tourism in order to help the economy, hurt by cutbacks at the British naval base, the Archbishop squelched a proposal to build a gambling casino and censured bikinis as immodest. Finally, left-leaning Mintoff threatened to seek economic aid from neutralist Egypt or Communist Yugoslavia. For "grave offenses against ecclesiastical authorities," the Archbishop put the Labor Party's entire leadership under interdict (denying them confession, communion or consecrated burial), made it a mortal sin for a Catholic to support the Socialists...
...middle of a three-week run at the Copa, Bobby Darin exemplifies the shallowing reservoir of young U.S. pop singing talent-an immodest boy with modest ability, whose fan club has just a little more to crow about than the followers of Frankie Avalon or the Fabian societies. Yet Darin has made six LP albums that have sold more than 1,500,000 copies. His trademark single recordéa driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife-has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. He has all the bookings he can handle in America...