Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image of God, Maitland is disturbed and resentful of his being remade in the image of the computer. He is outraged that the soothsayers of scientific progress seem to be sundering the old blood ties that linked man to man. Maitland envies the young their guilt-free grace and cool; yet he lashes out against a generation-including his own icily indifferent daughter-that may have self-protectively guarded itself from feeling any emotion in depth...
There is Society, Birmingham announces; then there is Real Society. "There were few Real Society people in attendance at the wedding of Luci Johnson." But: "Nor were there Real Society people at the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco. ('I hear that they met,' said a Philadelphia Society woman at the time, 'at the home of a mutual friend in Ocean City, New Jersey. But how can that be? No one has gone to Ocean City for years...
...vastness of St. Patrick's Cathedral, it was from first to last a peculiarly personal Kennedy occasion. The women wore black, their daughters white; the Mass, even for the dead, carries the promise of life. Ethel and Rose displayed yet again the steely grace that seems to sustain all women born to or married to Kennedys. Children were a big part of Bobby's life, and played a part in the service. Four sons served as acolytes. Eight of their brothers, sisters and cousins bore the bread, the wine and the sacred vessels to the high altar...
...voice, the humor and the casual grace evoked memories of another man and a happier time. But Bobby was always his own person. Jack could get somewhere without really trying. Bobby ("the Runt") could not, or thought he could not, and thus tried all the harder. Perhaps this is what inspired in other men such unyielding loyalty and such unquenchable hatreds, neither of which Jack ever evoked to such intense degree. Because of the family tradition, it was inevitable that some day, if not in 1968, then 1972, Bobby would run for President. As a Senator, John Kennedy explained...
...introduced the tragic hero to literature, was his "favorite poet." On the death of Martin Luther King Jr., he used the lines: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." Asked once why he strove so hard, Kennedy again quoted from Aeschylus: "When the height is won, then there is ease...