Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saigon prepared to surrender, the last lecture of "Vietnam" for 1975 was ending. Woodside facing an even larger crowd than usual, drew smile with his mixing of Eastern and Western images--"A grand Confucian funeral makes a Hollywood funeral seem emotionally modest," he explained a one point. As 1:00 drew near, he skipped some points, and began speaking faster. When the bells of Memorial Church started ringing, he still has more...
...honorary degree from Oxford, and enough sex-education projects to make him rich for life. Oddly, something very like this improbable conclusion has happened to Goggins' creator-Alex Comfort, 55, a writer-biologist-philosopher of some note, whose useful work on the aging process was carried out in modest obscurity until he unleashed The Joy of Sex and More Joy (TIME, Oct. 7) upon the do-it-by-the-book decade. Odder still, Comfort published Come Out to Play in England in 1961, long before he emerged as the Baedeker of bodily contact...
North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong; but the total is less than the $150 billion the U.S. has spent in Viet Nam since 1950. Moreover, the relatively modest Soviet investment in Hanoi's future was made with minimum risk of military confrontation with the U.S. and with loss of only a handful of Russian lives. During the past year, ideologists writing in Soviet party journals have quietly reflected the Kremlin's glee. In addition to the U.S. disaster in Indochina, they have pointed to reverses perceived as signs of capitalist disintegration. They include the setback to Secretary...
...premiere is made up to look like Hitler, and his excitement drives the crowd to greater excesses of violence. It moves like a marauding army. Not only are people trampled and windows broken, but fires start, telephone poles fall, and Hollywood Boulevard seems to shake. West's modest riot was more effective than Schlesinger's whole set piece. But this silly cameo of World War II is perfectly in order for a movie so far out of control...
...businesses they are supposed to regulate. They have urged the creation of a national commission on regulatory reform, a sweeping proposal that has so far won little support in Congress and, predictably, even less from the agencies themselves. Undeterred, the Administration is now plugging away at a more modest program of regulatory reforms and making slow but discernible progress...