Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncommonly sure of himself. There is an easy communion between the two men. Johnson kiddingly refers to Moyers as "mah Baptist preacher." Moyers, who was ordained to become a teacher, not a preacher, kids Lyndon right back. As the President tells the story, Moyers one day was saying grace before a White House dinner in such a low voice that he could hardly be heard. "Speak up, Bill!" bellowed Lyndon. "Speak up!" Murmured Moyers: "I wasn't addressing you, Mr. President...
...years of his life this pintpot Pan with the archangelic voice may have done as much for poetry by reciting it as he did by writing it. He was a grubby little man with a beery bulge, a doorknob nose and puppy-dog eyes, but he was visited by grace. His words, his voice kindled fires where no fires were. He renewed the ancient truth that poems are significant not as acrostics but as celebrations. He celebrated always the fundamental experiences: birth, copulation and death. And in his greatest lines he entered the mystery of existence itself and evoked...
Eventually they were allowed to sit in auditoriums and hallways in both schools, and the next day were admitted into classes, with a period of grace in which to obtain transfer slips...
...next play, Jim Grace dove into the end zone, and Graham passed to Eagan for two points...
...more typical of his personality was the calm, winning grace with which he carried through the exhausting ritual of his visit-and with which he happily departed from protocol when the spirit moved him. There was visible friendship and affection in the two-handed gesture with which he saluted crowds, in the avuncular kiss with which he rewarded a child...