Word: immodest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petronius Arbiter was a pornographic satire written by Nero's whoremonger, a raucous tale of two worldly youths moving through the decaying strata of Roman society. Fellini lifted all of the characters but just a single episode from the book. The result, announces the director with a characteristically immodest shrug, "is about 20% Petronius and 80% Fellini...
...would expect the Government to do the same thing." Since the Johnson Administration feels that it cannot sweat anything out of the war budget, the effect of Mills's position has been to bring the Great Society to a sudden, painful pause. Moreover, Mills is being unduly immodest when he argues: "I can't twist arms. The Administration thinks that if I'm for a tax bill, then everybody on the committee will be for it, except a few Republicans. That's not true...
...Britain. Unlike most British corporate chiefs, Matchan paved his way to the top not on the playing fields of Eton but at London amuse ment parks and movie lots. The son of a sewing-machine repairman, Matchan parlayed a modest talent for figures and an immodest one for braggadocio into a youthful career as a "financial ad viser" to showfolk. At 25, he landed a bookkeeping job with Max Factor when the U.S. cosmetics maker entered the British market. In twelve years, Mat chan 1) helped wash away the prewar Victorian notion that lipstick was not for English ladies...
...Bacon says, "It may sound immodest, but unless there's somebody in here willing to fight to keep the district clean, it could slip back (into corruption) in six months. Everything is still here--the money and the power to misuse...
Like many immodest men Sorokin finds great pleasure in feigning humility. He points out that interest in his sociological ideas ("my yarns") is reviving in Russia. Or he mentions a Rutgers University speaking invitation, calling him one of the world's most distinguished teachers, and adds, "I cannot understand why they would have wanted...