Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Gynecologist John Rock, despite his Roman Catholic faith, put his name to a birth-control petition nearly 40 years ago. This modest act was dictated by conscience rather than defiance. With Dr. Gregory Pincus and Dr. M. C. Chang, Rock went on to develop the Pill, the first really effective contraceptive device. As Pope Paul VIs encyclical made clear last summer, the Catholic hierarchy is not yet prepared to abandon a position that it has maintained for 1,770 years. When it does, John Rock's courage and example will have played a significant part in this profound...
...humble way," says Ronnie Davis, director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, "to destroy the United States," That is the modest ambition of several groups of strolling players who consider themselves collectively to be proponents of "guerrilla theater," Performing on street corners or on flatbed trucks, earning their keep by pass-the-hat collections, these dramatic revolutionaries have but one purpose: to "radicalize" their audiences into action and rebellion, Recently, three of the best-known guerrilla organizations -the Mime Troupe, New York City's Bread and Puppet Theater and California's El Teatro Campesmo-gathered at San Francisco...
...commercials are extremely restricted: they are bunched together in a nightly two-minute package of 15-and 30-second spots, shown in black-and-white on one of the country's two channels. By U.S. standards, the rates are modest: $7,600 for 15 seconds and $14,000 for 30 seconds. In 1969, advertising time will be doubled to four minutes a day, producing $40 million for the government...
...impact of his performance, however, is lessened by Producer-Director Ralph Nelson's determination to prove that he learned how to be new and now at Expo '67: almost every other sequence is done in split screens, multiple images, still shots or slow motion. There is a modest redeeming feature for tourists and lovers of travelogues: the historic sights in and around Charly's Boston setting have never been more lovingly filmed...
...that modest illumination, John Cleary (Jack Albertson) and his wife Nettie (Patricia Neal) welcome home their son Timmy (Martin Sheen) from World War II. Ostensibly the occasion is a celebration. But beneath the boozy jubilation rages another war-one between a mother and father for the possession of their...