Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French are grimly determined, with or without outside help, to go ahead with their atomic striking force. De Gaulle has conducted four atomic test explosions in the Sahara wastes, is close to building a modest bomb small enough to be delivered by an airplane. At the big Dassault factories, work is under way on the Mirage IV bomber, a two-seat jet that can reach Mach 2.4 (1,590 m.p.h.) over a 2,000-mile range. Fifty of these, combined with the smaller, slower Mirage III, will make a considerable new foe for the Communists along about 1965. The first...
Continuing this heartening trend of lean prose and effective dialogue, Anne Lindbergh focuses on incest in her short sketch about a brother and sister parting at an air terminal. September is a modest attempt that leaves one hoping for something more ambitious from Miss Lindbergh in the future...
...time, Donald Lamont Jack, 38, has served in the Royal Air Force, worked as a salesman, freight checker, surveyor, typist, packer in a department store, and a music critic, studied art and the theater, flopped as an actor and written with only modest success for the theater, movies and TV. Donald Lamont Jack can now stop groping around for an occupation: he is a talented comic novelist...
...Matter of Esthetics. On a more modest scale, Architect Gordon Bunshaft, chief designer for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, also had a problem with paintings. His were Picasso, Miro, Modigliani, Dubuffet, and they all had to be fitted into his five-room rental apartment on East 66th Street. He chose "neutral" furnishings "to let the paintings do the coloring." To create more space, Bunshaft removed a wall separating the entranceway from the dining area. His TV set is placed behind a sliding Dubuffet, and from behind a Miro comes the sound of his hi-fi speaker. By using stainless steel, Formica...
Steven Lubin's tilted stage and scrim-filled set were flexible and just modest enough for the small area allotted them. The lighting done by Thomas Bever was unobtrusive, which for this show means good; but someone really should get that door to close by tomorrow night...