Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fogg staff sets up displays for almost every Fine Arts 13 section meeting and provides more modest exhibits for other courses and hangs specific paintings for students from Brandeis, Wellesley and other neighboring schools. Concentrators are most tenderly cared for; at times the Fogg even permits them to run their fingers over a painting's surface...
Richard E. Neustadt has called this "urban populism." To the extent that it appeared this spring, this movement is probably one of the main reasons Kennedy met such modest success snaring delegates in northern industrial, non-primary states. Oldstyle political leaders not only feared the possibility of a President dealing actively with upstart urban alignments; they were also chary of Kennedy's rather pronounced enthusiasm for community action projects and increased private investment in ghetto self-development. Much of what Kennedy said was also directly threatening to rural political leaders who frequently rely on minimal voter participation...
...goals are relatively modest, but they are also attainable. That is more than can be said for the blue-sky, 59-page manifesto of demands that Abernathy drew up at the start of the campaign...
...Biddie Victoria touring car. Bidding right along with Resnick was the biggest old-car buff of all, William Harrah, owner of Nevada's Harrah's gambling clubs and the world's largest antique-auto collection (1,300 cars). Harrah kept his bids modest, acquired only four autos. "Exotic, glamorous cars are going for very high prices," Harrah noted, "run-of-the-mill stuff for very...
...about 50,000 copies have been sold, mostly to university libraries where for the first time they will be available for students' perusal. Though most of the magazines are in the public domain, Kraus scrupulously tracked down the editors and in most cases is paying them modest royalties on sales. As for the authors, they are happy to see their early efforts exhumed and once again in print. Much to her delight, Marianne Moore reported that she had come across some poems in a Kraus volume that she had forgotten she had written...