Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan a generation ago, comely Crown Princess Michiko took to a tennis court with Crown Prince Akihito in their first public sports outing since their marriage last April. She was paired with Akihito in a mixed-doubles match with other members of the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club. Michiko displayed grace, stamina-and lace panties quaintly peeping out from under her "Michi-style" tennis suit...
...Geyl, "Our knowledge of history has been deepened by this thoughtful historian's illumination of his kind;" of Miss Taussig, "Brilliant daughter of a brilliant father, her scientific investigations have helped to save countless children from death or lives of crippling pain;" of Barber, "His music lends strength and grace to the culture of our time...
...secular" and its teaching function toward the undergraduate demands that religious preconceptions be discounted as much as possible. Gilmore gives an example of the different ways in which a church and a university handle momentous intellectual questions: "Augustine would never say to Pelagius, 'Let us examine your position on grace, Pelagius ...' as Socrates would say to Thrasmymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the University," Gilmore holds, "must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian...
...schemes of wordly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther's overwhelming sense of guilt and sin, of total depravity--"the dark night of the soul"--before he discovered hope in the unmerited gift of Divine Grace...
...case of the rugby team, which averages better home attendance than the varsity baseball team, the HAA grants no subsidy whatever and seals off other sources by not permitting team members to pass the hat among the crowd. But the coup de grace came Saturday when the HAA charged admittance to the rugby game. Although it collected admission for both the baseball and rugby contests on Soldiers Field, only one of these sports benefits from an HAA subsidy...