Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Performing the Requiem was a carefully picked group of musicians. Adams recruited the chorus of sixty from the Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the University Choir. The modest orchestra da chiesa contained some of Harvard's most respected undergraduate musicians. Of the four soloists, soprano Carlotta Wilsen conducts the Radcliffe Freshmen Chorus, tenor Henry Gibbons is the music tutor of Lowell House, and bass David Ripley is a freshman. Adams thus refuted the current contention that a major choral-orchestral work cannot be performed at Harvard without importing most of the necessary musicians from the outside...
...commonplace in the Harvard dorms. He later conceded that he had overstated the problem and allowed that "a degree of companionship is very important in a large impersonal college." Monro also designed Harvard's freshman seminars, served as an effective middle man between students and other top administrators. Modest but outspoken, he upgraded the vaguely defined deanship to make it one of Harvard's most influential offices...
Approval of the fish flour by the Food and Drug Administration marked the end of a long struggle within the Government. Illinois' VioBin Corp. has been exporting fish flour since 1955, and in 1961 the company sought FDA approval for U.S. distribution. Though VioBin expected only a modest market in the U.S., where protein-deficient diets are not a major problem, U.S. approval promised to help convince countless purchasers overseas. But the FDA then ruled that no matter how well it might be sterilized in processing, the light tan powder must be considered "adulterated and filthy" because it included...
Rosé in the Fridge. Vanessa's problems are of a different sort?though on the surface no problems are apparent. She rents a modest stucco house in a pleasant but not palatial suburb of Los Angeles, and except for her daily visits to the studio lives there like any other matron of reasonable means with her two children, their nanny and her secretary. She gets home by 7 or 8, gives a big hug to her two little girls?Natasha, 3˝, and Joely Kim, 2. Then she hears all about what they did that day, reads them a leisurely bedtime...
When Washington makes major economic moves, Wall Street responds with a spasm of stock trading. Last week, at President Johnson's call to restore tax credits for business investment, the market churned through its most frenzied day in 37 years. When it was all over, stocks made only modest gains, but volume on the New York Stock Exchange ballooned to 14.9 million shares, second only to the 16.41 million shares traded on Oct. 29, 1929. The Big Board's two-year-old high-speed ticker, which flashes stock transactions as fast as the human eye can read, fell...