Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Metropolitan Opera had two new productions ready to greet the opening of its 79th season last week-a lavish but disappointing Aïda and a modest Manon. Aïda succeeded in sharing some of the opening night glitter with its $50-a-seat audience, but it was plagued by the galloping vulgarity that now and then attacks the Met's production staff. Manon appeared with a blush three nights later and, despite troubles of its own, triumphed quietly...
...Modest Approach...
...cannot be run as another kid program. The Corps administrators should have realized that the CVSF contract was putting the Brazil project into a Four Point guise that would inevitably lead to trouble. The project is finally turning out well because the administrators and volunteers are trying a more modest approach. The "helping-out-around-the-village" role of the Brazil volunteers may not sound impressive but it is effective. A favorable sign is that the requests being sent to the Rio Peace Corps office by village mayors call for volunteers to do "more of same...
Hand Pumps. But progress has finally come to the Yaak River Valley-and last week, amid modest ceremony, the inhabitants observed the first linking-in of the area's electric power line. The valley will never be the same again-a fact observed with pleasure by most, but with misgivings by some...
...that it now has two Mirage IV bombers capable of delivering atomic bombs (probably 60 kilotons each). While to hardheaded U.S. military men the name of the bombers summarizes the whole project, to De Gaulle it is the beginning of his independent force de frappe, and as such a modest guarantee of an independent course for France. The rift between the U.S. and De Gaulle over the shape of the Western Alliance has never been wider. When French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Nurville conferred with President Kennedy last week, paving the way for a De Gaulle visit...