Word: modest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meaningful Restraint. "I have wandered far," Ike said after V-E Day in 1945, "but never have I forgotten Abilene." Nor had the town of Abilene forgotten its most illustrious son. For the burial, official decoration was modest, consisting of small flags hung on lampposts. Most stores put up signs saying "Closed in respect to Dwight Eisenhower." Such restraint, as TIME'S Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark noted, "does not mean that they were not proud of him or that they did not admire him tremendously. They did, both as the famous home-town boy and as a reflection...
...Ankrah, Afrifa is a Sandhurst-trained career officer who also held a command in Ghana's U.N. expeditionary force to the Congo. Under Afrifa's management, Ghana has been living frugally on an austerity budget. That is also Afrifa's personal style: he lives in a modest bungalow and drives a small station wagon...
Incendiary Value. Whether or not the author intended it, this is an inflammatory statement, and it has reverberated far beyond the modest circle of the Review's 12,000 subscribers. Columnist Joseph Alsop and Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, who writes a weekly column for the Washington Post, have entered demurrers. In a Virginia court, Jensen has been quoted by attorneys resisting the integration of schools in Greensville and Caroline counties. Well aware of the article's incendiary value, the editors of the Review will publish five closely reasoned rebuttals to Jensen's thesis in their next issue...
...most memorable things about the funeral of Dwight David Eisenhower (see THE NATION) was its quiet dignity. The brief Biblical service and the confident hymns bespoke the man who had chosen them before his death; like him, they were modest, realistic and hopeful. Yet, in a nation whose overblown funeral rites were once the proper subject of mockery in Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, such a straightforward farewell is no longer the exception. Christian funerals in the U.S. are changing, and they now tend to emphasize the simple, yet triumphant qualities that characterized the Eisenhower rites...
...symbolizes the Risen Christ. Gone is the chilling but beautiful hymn of the old Latin services -the Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath"). In its place may be the 23rd or 121st Psalm ("I lift my eyes unto the hills") or joyful hymns ending in an alleluia. The homily is modest and uplifting. "We stress that life is not ended but merely changed," says Monsignor James J. Madden of Richmond, Texas...