Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modest Proposal...
Another talked-about film was Un Homme et Une Femme, a modest story of a simple love affair between a young widow (Anouk Aimée) and a racing-car driver (Jean-Louis Trintignant). New Wave Director Claude Lelouch, 28, shot the picture in four weeks, at one point had himself strapped with his camera to the hood of a speeding car to get realistic footage of the races. The crusty critics even applauded during the showing, rated the film as an homme-dinger, a top contender for the festival's first prize, the Golden Palm...
...farm worker, Scott was kicked out of the Greenville, Miss., Little League at eleven because "they said I was too big and too good. Over one stretch of six games, I hit at least two home runs in every game, three in most." Signed by Boston for a modest $10,000 bonus when he graduated from high school, he spent last year playing for the Red Sox's Pittsfield, Mass., farm club in the Class AA Eastern League-where he hit .319, with 25 homers in 140 games. Batting in the big leagues, he allows, is easier in some...
...Seltzer's independent studies will eventually add up to a valuable program. Such an education can never be, for years to come, more than a combination of the haphazard steps that created it. If Harvard is going to have a valuable program in the arts, whether one of negligible, modest, or gigantic size, some body of the Faculty, is going to have to start planning...
...have happily joined in. Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) sells auto and travel accident policies written by its own insurance subsidiary; Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store offers Concord Life $10,000 term life insurance to its charge-account customers. Though the card companies earn only a modest fee of 20? to 50? on each premium billed, they are eager to offer new services and thus keep otherwise dormant accounts active...