Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is the point at which greatness enters Moore's performance. Sarah will die--of tuberculosis--in this state of uncertainty, but with both her husband and her former lover attending her deathbed--touched, perhaps, by some dim, unspoken understanding of Sarah's acceptance that grace has befallen her. The final irony is that it is the worldly Maurice who will be given the last piece of the puzzle, near-irrefutable evidence of her saintliness...
...takes a certain sort of grace to endure a never-ending parade of humiliations and if anyone has exhibited that grace, the fine folks of Yale certainly have. Thank you Yale, for demonstrating to the world the difference between the 98th and 99th percentile on standardized tests, and for proudly carrying the banner of inferiority all these years. Good luck tomorrow--there's no question you'll need...
...alone of Galileo's three children mirrored his own brilliance, industry, and sensibility," Sobel writes. Yet remarkable as she was, Galileo's daughter revolves sedately around her father, whose triumphs and persecutions are recounted by Sobel with grace and power...
...Federal Reserve, the main bank regulator, quickly granted Weill and his new partner, co-CEO John Reed from Citi, a grace period to sort things out. Long before they would have to do any actual sorting, though, Congress is now fixing things for good. President Clinton is expected to soon sign a bill repealing the decades-old restrictions that have divided brokerage and banking into infusible industries. The bill sweeps aside the Glass-Steagall Act and blesses the brave new banking world embodied in Weill's $689 billion behemoth, Citigroup. Lest there be doubt as to how fully Weill routed...
Some schools cope by employing volunteers to help in the classroom. At Forest Trail Elementary in Austin, Texas, Marie Grace, a stay-at-home mom, serves one day a week on "table time." During a recent visit, she sat at a table with five children and passed out Froot Loops cereal. First the children sorted the cereal by color, then they talked about the letter f and which words begin with f. The students then made a graph showing how many loops of each color they had. Then they made a necklace of the loops and, finally, ate them. When...