Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These professionals and small businessmen are often the sons or grandsons of immigrants, often the first of their families to have graduated from college or to have accumulated enough capital to become modest entrepreneurs. They have status but are not secure in it. They have aspirations for the good life but not quite enough income to achieve it. They cannot afford private schools for their children, and the public schools in many of their neighborhoods are bad. They cannot tolerate crime; yet it keeps rising. They are open to liberal approaches, but the city has had liberal administrations...
Last spring Procaccino adroitly capitalized on the revolt by Negro militants that temporarily caused tuition free City College to close. To many whites of modest means, who regard the school as an indispensable social-economic ladder, the Negro demands for wholesale admission of blacks meant lowered academic standards and less room for whites. City College Alumnus Mario Procaccino brought a court suit to compel the city to reopen the institution. It put him in the favorable position of using respectable means to stand up to the radicals. He scored points across the board with this bit of alliterative class propaganda...
Defenestrated Deputies. The regime's bad days at Cipolletti erupted not over high policy but a relatively modest 80-mile, $2.8 million road that was to be built in the Andean foothills. The road was the pet project of Governor Juan Figueroa Funge, 66, of Rio Negro Province, who proudly announced it at his inauguration in Viedma last Au gust. It was also the pet peeve of out spoken Mayor Julio Dante Salto of Cipolletti, 600 miles away. Salto, 55, called the road "folly," and urged that the money be spent on other projects...
...four most fortunate and famous music makers. Melodic, inventive, crammed with musical delights, Abbey Road is the best thing the Beatles have done since Sgt. Pepper (1967). Whereas that historic record stretched the ear and challenged the mind and imagination, Abbey Road is a return to the modest, pie-Pepper style of Rubber Soul and Revolver. It has a cheerful coherence-each song's mood fits comfortably with every other-and a sense of wholeness clearly contrived as a revel in musical pleasure...
...want from us, baby?" shrieks a black homosexual to a desolated Roddy at film's end. "Whatever answers you're lookin' for, we ain't it. No matter what they tell you, baby, we ain't got rhythm." The fault of this modest and diverting enterprise is that, like Roddy himself, it can never resolve the question of black and white identities and, by attempting to combine the two, produces only an uneasy shade of gray...