Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the study's "relatively modest format," Ford predicted that "it will be hugely important." He believed that the Faculty Committee to Review General Education had prepared "an extremely good report," he added...
Revisions in theology start inconspicuously enough-usually as footnote-laden articles in grey, learned journals with modest circulations. Future church historians may well date a profound change in Roman Catholic thinking on marriage from the current issue of a scholarly Belgian periodical called Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, There, the Rev. Louis Janssens, 56, a respected professor of moral theology at the University of Louvain, cautiously endorsed oral contraceptive pills as a legitimate means of family limitation for Catholic couples...
Today, Budapest's modest traffic jams are made up as much of Chevrolet Impalas and Mercedes 220s as of Russian-built Volgas and Zims. Last year, more than 100,000 Hungarians were allowed to travel past the minefields and machine-gun towers that still guard the border to visit the West. Western authors can now be found in Budapest bookstores (current rage: Graham Greene), and the city's 200,000 television sets roar to the guns of U.S. westerns. Operetta buffs were recently treated to a fine production of Csokolj Meg, Katam-better known as Kiss Me, Kate...
Many collapsed-Stan Kenton jumped ship again last year-but those that have survived now seem to be gaining some of their old popularity. Despite the melancholy effort of swimming up stream against history, they are man aging a modest renaissance...
...level of realism, the Cheever biography is just another success story -of a man reaping the modest rewards of recognition after a lifetime of devoted apprenticeship, journeyman years, and final mastery of a difficult trade. His spiritual biography is something else again, seen clearly only in terms of his own severe moral vision. He sees man not in modern terms as any individual but as the center of a system of obligations. Evasion or betrayal of these obligations may be punishable by metamorphosis into some monstrous, less-than-human form. Life, he writes, is "a perilous moral journey." The freaks...