Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modest collector, prints offer all the pleasure of owning an original at a bargain rate, and the artists have responded by turning out prints that rank among their most important work. Few men realized the brahminization of graphics faster than Jakob Rosenberg, now 71, former print curator of the Berlin State Museum and of Harvard's Fogg Museum, and now in semiretirement, teaching at Williams College. A steady scholar who can and has separated many a Rembrandt from a replica by its brush work, Rosenberg is called "the expert's expert" by Fogg Director John Coolidge. His students...
...spoke in fluent, idiomatic English--it "got his gizzard" when someone praised the old Continental school system. Yet Europe gave him his languages; I saw books in German, Russian, French, Italian, Swedish, and Latin, and there were probably more. He was modest about his gifts: "In European economic history, you pick up languages as you go along." Walking to the bookcase, he put his hand on some volumes by the great Swedish economic historian, Eli Heckscher. "I am a great admirer of Heckscher's, and the Scandinavian experience is very important. So my wife and I learned Swedish together...
...fastback Barracuda, established a 0.6% niche for itself. Plymouth made an impressive improvement over its January 1964 market share, adding; 1.5%. Buick won an additional 0.8%, Tempest and Chrysler 0.6% each, standard Ford 0.5% and Mercury 0.4% -all at the expense of the compacts and the cars with only modest styling changes, which continued to be the biggest losers. Because the auto sales total is so great, the percentage shifts only appear to be small: actually, every extra percentage point will be worth more than $200 million in annual sales...
...Lagos -in April 1963, worked hard to get construction under way by the following September. But the architects cannot always cater to their clients' demands. Whiting Associates' President Edmund Whiting rejects proposals by new nations for massive hospitals with sophisticated equipment, fights for acceptance of more modest facilities "We could take their money," he explains but they would be losers...
...restaurant, at least for the time being-don't waggle so much," she tells one hip-swiveling waitress. Borrowing its theme from a 1958 Italian law banning legalized brothels, Love purports to show what happens when four harlots open a restaurant in the country. Theirs is a modest establishment, designed to keep the girls off the street until they dare to resume plying their old trade upstairs...