Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state Board's demands last week were modest and reasonable. It asked the Committee to make clear how and when future school construction will correct present imbalance. It called for direct financial support to private groups like Operation Exodus, which is now busing a few hundred children out of Roxbury. It sought consideration of proposals to bus a few hundred more Negroes to suburban schools...
...took him past the ruins of a U.S. Information Service center that was set afire in anti-Washington riots last September. To both Pakistan and India, which are still smarting over suspension of U.S. aid programs as a result of their border war over Kashmir, Humphrey bore good, if modest, tidings. After conferring with Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, Humphrey announced a new $50 million loan. When he saw India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, he was able to promise a $100 million loan...
...Modest though it was, the plan represented quite an unbending of the French economy by De Gaulle's austere standards for his Fifth Republic. The man he chose to carry out the change is a proven expert in bending over backward: Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debré, 54. Before he became De Gaulle's first Premier in 1959, Debré had been totally committed to keeping Algeria French; his main task turned out to be implementing De Gaulle's policy for Algerian independence. De Gaulle rewarded Debré in the arbitrary manner of princes, dumping...
...Plain Speech." He recounts the successful defense of his heterosexual hon or against the assault of perverted Chicago cops-and later of giant Negro homosexuals in jail-with the same modest gusto of a college quarterback telling Coach how he managed to shake the field. It was a rough world, not just on the picket lines but in the interminable ideological warfare among the power addicts on the outer fringe of communoid politics. This kind of politics seems as dead today as Joe Hill. The reader will wonder how, among his chosen society-the failed saints, moral riffraff, ignorant zealots...
...Gospel According to St. Matthew is a modest, unadorned movie on the life of Christ that should satisfy the yearnings of anyone who has ever suffered through the pretentious piety of multimillion-dollar orgies of Scripturama. Paradoxically, it is the work of a usually irreverent Italian Communist, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who casts a solemn, hot-eyed Spanish student (Enrique Irazoqui) as Jesus and sends him out to preach among the peasantry with a social revolutionist's fervor. Yet Pasolini at his best has created something more noble and touching than a Marxist Messiah, and more authentic than...