Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bulge in World War II, Taylor earned the sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire from committee members, Taylor, crisply handsome in dark grey suit and TV-blue shirt, held his ground with the grace and sang-froid of a man whose intellect and experience were more than a match for his august adversaries...
...rare blend of soldier-scholar who commands five foreign languages, Taylor sprinkled his testimony with grace notes such as a quote from Greece's Third Century B.C. historian Polybius ("It is not the purpose of war to annihilate those who provoke it, but to cause them to mend their ways.") and a comparison of Communist expansionism with Islam's "flaming sword" policy...
...director of the blood program for the Cambridge Red Cross, Miss Lee Grace, said yesterday that allowing such an option did not represent any commitment by the Red Cross for or against the Administration's Vietnam policy...
Several weeks ago, she said, the Cambridge Red Cross was asked by a student in the Boston area to organize a blood drive for North Vietnam. The request was refused, Miss Grace explained, because the American Red Cross exists "primarily to assist the American people." She said that the North Vietnamese could appeal to the International Red Cross for blood...
...wrench justice from fate. This mentality is impervious to the tragic sense, the view of existence best expressed by Ortega y Gasset when he said: "The condition of man is essential uncertainty. Man feels himself lost, shipwrecked." Nor can Sartre, as an atheist, accept the dispensation of Christian grace, which redeems the sinner without denying the sin. In Sartre's world, the problem of evil is as shallow as Narcissus' pool. The self accuses, judges, justifies and condemns the self...