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...help spur sales, the McDougals convinced the Clintons that a model home should be built on the property. McDougal arranged the purchase of an exceedingly modest two-bedroom prefabricated house for a little over $20,000; installation on Lot 13 brought the costs to over $28,000. Whitewater had its first home...
With only 20 members and services just once a month, New Liberty never played a part in the civil rights movement. But like every other black church in every other black community across the nation, the modest pine-plank structure meant something special to its congregation. "The church stands as a symbol of black pride and self-sufficiency,'' says Rose Sanders, a black lawyer in Selma. "Burning one is as close as you can come to a lynching without killing somebody...
When the inseparable Rudy and Laura start to talk, the most common opener is, "After we won the nationals..." The victory truly changed their lives. Now there is an agent, a tour, deals in the works. Before the nationals, the big money in skating bypassed this modest team. Even before the tragedies of the early '90s, life had not been easy. Jess Galindo had been a busy trucker, carting rocket fuel from Gilroy, California, to Carson City, Nevada. When both his younger children pleaded for skating lessons, he provided them--and settled for a mobile home. Rudy and his mother...
...individual arrogance. The basis of this outside stereotype comes mostly from a sort of communal arrogance. It is in our general discourse--in the newspaper articles, in the jokes told on stage and in conversations with friends. The name that hangs over our heads seems to allow normally modest individuals to become shamelessly conceited...
Harvard's enormous collection allows possible Assistant Curator Emilie Norris' historiographical approach. She has organized the pieces around a modest controversy, Feininger's nationality, which raged, momentarily, in the early 1930s when Feininger was living in Germany. Curators had a hard time classifying Feininger because though he moved to Germany when he was 16, he was born and raised in New York. Since he came to prominence as a German, he never really lost that identity. But when Museum of Modern Art curator Alfred Barr included Feininger in a 1929-30 exhibit on American artists, he ran into "outspoken hostility...