Word: courteousness
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...have more energy than his younger colleagues. He regularly scans reports from each hotel and reads complaints that guests send in. If he sees something amiss, a hotel manager somewhere will get a quick telephone call from Hilton. Recently Hilton launched a big drive to make Hilton employees more courteous to guests, had behind-the-scenes spots in Hilton hotels plastered with posters that asked: "Have you smiled today? It's bound to give you a lift...
...matter concerning the students. Although Van Dusen had no thoughts of an academic career, Coffin with mistaken shrewdness concluded that the young cleric was fishing for a job. Later, Coffin wrote Van Dusen, urging him to take an instructorship at Union, and made the offer so warmly courteous that Van Dusen accepted, believing that his revered adviser really wanted him to do so. "And so," says Van Dusen, who years later unraveled the confusion, "I got on the faculty through a misunderstanding...
...measured, courteous and utterly lucid words. Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike last week denounced the excesses of glossolalia, the prayer practice in which the worshiper's tongue wags on and on in what seems like gibberish to skeptics. Once chiefly confined to members of pentecostal denominations, glossolalia has lately gained hundreds of adherents among Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, and even Yale students (TIME. March 29). To practitioners, "speaking in tongues" is good for ending alcoholism, repairing broken marriages and furthering the work of Christ. To California's Bishop Pike, it is "heresy in embryo" when there is an overemphasis...
...creator of this pleasant pavilion is Architect Minoru Yamasaki, a wiry, 132-lb. Nisei who was born 50 years ago in a slum less than two miles from where the Science Pavilion now stands. In manner, he is the most courteous of men, often humble to a fault. But the core of the man is all steel, tempered not only by the anti-Nisei discrimination he has known, but also by his often lonely fight to reintroduce into architecture the embellishments that many modern architects tend to despise...
...again for the strings. The three sections tune separately. Nor does Stokowski, like most conductors, stop the orchestra in mid-flight during practice sessions; he plays through a composition from beginning to end, making copious notes, then consults his notes before pointing out where the orchestra went wrong. Courteous and patient with his orchestra, he is also given to sharply pointed remarks when he thinks that a musician is performing 'at less than his best. At a recent rehearsal he remarked dryly to one culprit: "You are a good player, but you don't play well...