Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small but rather decorative set--featuring a superflous canopy resembling the top of a disembodied four-poster--was designed and effectively lighted by William Schroeder. Edith Shroeder's and Thalia Boyajian's simple, colorful costumes and William Sleator's pleasant incidental music both made modest contributions to the evening...
...rare Biblical film, made with nonprofessional actors and a script based wholly on Scripture, this modest, unassuming drama on the life of Christ is by Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist...
Their troubles are particularly instructive, for most of the world's new nations do not have anything approaching even the modest resources of Ghana, Nigeria or Indonesia. Most of them are poor, primitive and ill-equipped for so much as the basics of nationhood. Some have capital cities that are not cities at all and government ministers who have not learned to administer. Government, in fact, is usually the biggest, and sometimes the only, industry in many new countries-and corruption is a way of life. Many of the new nations do not have minimal communications and transportation...
...four-year cycles. The Communicable Disease Center expected Type A to miss the Eastern states, or brush them only lightly, because they had outbreaks last year. So far, the C.D.C. has been correct. In the East, influenza B has attacked mostly the young and the old, with only a modest increase in resultant pneumonia. The Asian flu attacks all age groups indiscriminately, which explains the epidemic spread in California...
...Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall.† All three are still single. Though Diana, as lead singer, carries the heaviest load, they divide their earnings evenly. Using last year's take of $250,000 each (it may hit $400,000 this year), they moved their families into three modest duplexes on the same street in Detroit's northwest Buena Vista district. The homes are luxuryless, just spartanly comfortable, and reflect the girls' sensible, unawed view of their instant riches. "You know, my father didn't want me to get into this business," muses Diana. "When I left...