Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:48:17 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: No subject given



As Natalie intuited, it was the farthest thing from my mind when I wrote the

note below (following Grant's response) to advocate Webster's modesty-2 ("pro-

priety in dress, speech, or conduct") or, heaven forfend, to accuse Jesse of

advocating it. I'm sure neither of us would ever advocate anything of the

sort. What I was belaboring Jesse with was modesty-1 ("freedom from conceit

or vanity", or in this case, self-promotion).

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Please accept my apologies. I sometimes forget that what is common parlance

among New York twenty-somethings in advertising, journalism and fashion may not

fly elswwhere.



Last time I forgot I was at a family reunion in Missouri with my born-again

cousins.

Apparently The Lord didn't use the f-word.



Grant Barrett



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