Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bigtime football standards, the whole operation seems as pleasantly relaxed as a backyard barbecue. The players are almost all home-state boys. They perform in a modest stadium before informal crowds that are packed with friends and relatives. The games draw less national publicity than the price of cotton raised on nearby farms. But year in and year out, the University of Mississippi plays some of the finest football in the nation. The reason: Coach Johnny Vaught, 52, a bluff, leather-faced perfectionist who has so identified the success of his team with the prestige of the state that Mississippians...
...Haven, Conn., at a nightclub known as the Playback, which attracts fans like Author Thornton Wilder, Diplomat Chester Bowles and Composer Quincy Porter to hear serious music spiked with first-rate jazz. Playback is the plaything of Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, the two jazzmen who touched off a modest international incident last year when they introduced cheering Russian audiences to the intricacies of the Cool. Equally at home in jazz and classical music (Ruff has a master's degree in music from Yale, Mitchell studied at the Philadelphia Music Academy), the two decided after their return from Russia...
...East who have long haunted the imagination of the West. They are visible in the statuary, paintings and bas-reliefs of a thousand temples, in the ceremonial dancers who weave their intricate and flowing patterns in palace courtyards, in shops and streets and paddies, or bathing with modest nudity in roadside canals. Most famed are the tawny bare beauties of Bali and the tiny, remote girls of Solo in Indonesia. For those who wish to pursue the investigation more intimately, Manila has an infinitude of dance halls and brothels. Tokyo provides beautiful girls in endless, well-displayed quantity from...
...introduction to a recent anthology of his modest but knowledgeable speeches, Britain's Prince Philip shrewdly observes: "People would rather be bored than offended." In the past, oddly, Philip's own public relations have sometimes been more offensive than boresome.* But he has recently shown more self-awareness of his snippy streak, as he demonstrated last week in a speech to Britain's General Dental Council. Defined Philip: "Dentopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. I've been practicing it for years...
...Poor Mme. Morisot, the public hardly knows her!" wrote Impressionist Camille Pissarro on the day in 1895 that he heard of the death of his good friend Berthe Morisot. Compared with the following of her great contemporaries, Berthe Morisot's public has always been modest but no history of the impressionist movement could now overlook her. The reason was clear last week at Manhattan's Wildenstem gallery, where 69 of her works hung in the largest Morisot exhibition ever held...