Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...individual arrogance. The basis of this outside stereotype comes mostly from a sort of communal arrogance. It is in our general discourse--in the newspaper articles, in the jokes told on stage and in conversations with friends. The name that hangs over our heads seems to allow normally modest individuals to become shamelessly conceited...
Harvard's enormous collection allows possible Assistant Curator Emilie Norris' historiographical approach. She has organized the pieces around a modest controversy, Feininger's nationality, which raged, momentarily, in the early 1930s when Feininger was living in Germany. Curators had a hard time classifying Feininger because though he moved to Germany when he was 16, he was born and raised in New York. Since he came to prominence as a German, he never really lost that identity. But when Museum of Modern Art curator Alfred Barr included Feininger in a 1929-30 exhibit on American artists, he ran into "outspoken hostility...
...guesthouses. Later, he moved them to one of his palaces. But as the months passed a chill set in, and in October the government asked the families to vacate their opulent digs to make room for other guests. The Iraqis were moved into more modest accommodations on the way to the airport...
Clint Eastwood says he won't star in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. However, he will direct the tale of a murder set in Savannah, Georgia. Producer Arnold Stiefel, who bought the screen rights for a modest $300,000 before John Berendt's book became a best seller, couldn't be happier: "It's good nobody in Hollywood has time to read...
...Gies' modest recounting of her daredevil acts makes goodness seem almost routine, the norm, in a time when monsters ravaged Europe. But that is Blair's point. In war as in peace, Anne's friends showed a bravery they might well shrug off as simple human decency. This harrowing, inspiring film--an antidote to Holokitsch--is their testament. It alerts us that villainy is the rank soil in which heroism can flower...