Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prove what trendy spotters its trend spotters are. Esquire carries the practice too far in its current issue, in trumpeting its cover story, "The Year of the Lusty Woman-It's All Right to Be a Sex Object Again." As whomped-up pieces go, it's relatively modest, confining its thesis only to a year, not to a decade, as in Tom Wolfe's overhyped Me Decade. The author is described as Judy Klemesrud, "an avowed feminist and veteran New York Times reporter." How wide the phenomenon of the lusty-again woman is, and how detached...
...does money appear to be the main incentive for authors-though CBS has already made a deal with the Washington Post team. Advances are modest by paperback standards; Krause received some $40,000 up front, to be divided among three collaborators...
Toope and others have suggested ways in which Brustein could burnish his tarnished image among undergraduates. It would be nice if the man took all of this thoughtful criticism to heart. But I am not particularly sanguine. Looking at the matter realistically, taking a modest view of the impression undergraduate concerns can (and should) make on university policies and plans in general, we miss the boat if we categorically reject Brustein and his proposals. It would now be best to put aside antagonisms and welcome Brustein and the exciting possibilities he has suddenly opened up. Whitney Davis...
...modest Hughes has more than just that sense of where you are. George picks corners with his shots. He stickhandles deftly. He dekes the goalies into oblivion. Also, George has two new linemates and a younger brother named Jack who supplement his powers...
...Hanoi, three days after his return from his visit to the Vatican for the last papal conclave. Named his nation's first bishop in 1950, Trin Nhu Khue elected to remain in his native Hanoi after North Viet Nam gained its independence in 1954. In favor of a modest rapprochement with the Communists but steadfast in his refusal to vote in their elections, he was imprisoned in 1959 for a year and barred thereafter from traveling outside his country. That ban was dramatically broken in 1976 when he was allowed to go to the Vatican to receive...