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...book has touched a nerve in a society overdosed on sex and emerging from a most immodest year of sexual scandal. (Is it any surprise that sweeter days of swing dancing and Shakespeare are all the rage?) Shalit defends, at times compellingly, shame, privacy, gallantry and sexual reticence, if not virginity until marriage. Without these, she says, women have lost power, consigned to "dreary hookups" or sexual violence. "We want our 'feminine mystique' back," she writes, "and with it male honor." Sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, modestly attired in dark tights and a calf-length, buttoned-up olive shirtwaist...
...does "sound rather un-Christian" to qualify one's forgiveness. True, forgiveness can be very difficult. It would be immodest, if not profane, for any of us to claim that we could act similarly to Pope John Paul II when he extended his unsolicited forgiveness to his would-be assassin in 1981. But we can admire this deed as a model for emulation...
...Dole. "This is about the White House leveling with the American people and not letting it drip, drip, drip out as the American people find out." For his part, Foster is taking his cues from the world of heavyweight boxing: "Am I intimidated? No. And I'm not being immodest, I'm not being cocky...
...audience enjoyed Galbraith's lecture,breaking into frequent spontaneous applause andlaughing at his famously immodest remarks...
...under, who could "assume leadership roles in the right circumstances -- and given the right spirit of the country." Five years later, TIME chose a new portfolio of "faces for the future" -- 50 more people in the same age category whom the editors identified as emerging leaders. Without seeming immodest, we may observe that we accurately predicted great futures for many of the individuals on our lists. We made some missteps, of course -- Marion Barry comes to mind -- and we did fail to notice some of those who were in their pupal leadership stage -- Newt Gingrich, say -- but the fact remains...