Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stanley Arnold is a businessman and active civic do-gooder from New York City who sought the Democratic nomination for Vice President in 1972, but who feels that, with the country's credit rating slipping as it is, there's no use being modest this time around. What America needs now, Arnold's campaign literature seems to be saying, is a good, deficit-dashing businessman...
Most of Steinbeck's musings on the subject of writing are even less concrete than these examples. He had a modest view of his own ability; discussing his philosophy of writing, he said, "I suppose what it boils down to is this--a man has only a little to say and he says it over and over again. And the terrible thing is that I still don't know what it is I have to say, but I do know it isn't very complicated and it surely isn't new." Steinbeck gives the impression that for him writing...
...Considering Guatemala's modest (6 million) population, comparable quake damage in the U.S. would have killed 672,000 people and left 37 million homeless...
...Jodie, returning to herself meant to the gray-skirted school uniform of the rigorous Lycée Français, where she gets straight A's. She and her mother, who divorced Jodie's father when Jodie was nine months old, share a modest house overlooking the Hollywood Bowl. Since her debut on the television series Mayberry R.F.D., Jodie brightened the short-lived Paper Moon on TV and has made a total of ten movies, including the yet to be released Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, portraying a teeny-bopper killer; Bugsey Malone, an all-child...
...time he and Wertmuller met, Giannini was already well on his way to becoming the brightest young stage star in Italy. In 1964 he played Romeo in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, then David Copperfield in an ambitious twelve-part television program, roles that made him a modest and rather reluctant matinee idol. He worked with Wertmuller for the first time in 1966 on a movie called Rita The Mosquito, which she directed under the name "George Brown." Two years later, Giannini starred in a Wertmuller play he had brought to Zeffirelli's attention. Zeffirelli staged...