Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estate tax ($101 for every $1000 assessed valuation) and a tax base that declined in the 1950's, they sought, in President Pusey's words, "to give a new spin to the Hub." Together--Collins pacifying, convincing, gently forcing; and Logue pushing, sometimes so hard and with so little grace that critics have come to regard him as a tin-horn Robert Moses--they formed an alliance for progress with Boston's major business and civic leaders--Charles Coolidge, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Gerald W. Blakeley Jr., head of the real estate management firm of Cabot, and Forbes...
...there just the hint of a double chin? It wouldn't be surprising, for Monaco's Princess Grace is 35. But even when Mom becomes a full-fledged matron catching the more mature gazes, the family will still have a girl to turn younger heads. Arriving in the U.S. for a kinsfolk wedding, eight-year-old Princess Caroline flashed a cool smile of her own, asked, "Mummy, will you let me be an actress when I grow up?" Murmured Mummy, who says she'll never make another film herself, "You're already an actress, darling...
...papers at all times. On the whole, though, Italy is a tourist's legal paradise. Customs officials are inclined to overlook illegal liquor and cigarettes (more than two botties or two cartons); a 90-day stay can be extended in minutes; an expired passport gets a 48-hour grace period; traffic cops beam at addled tourists and dole out multilingual warning notes rather than parking tickets. Even disorderly tourists get breaks unknown to disorderly natives, and a robbed tourist is likely to get faster police aid in Italy than in almost any other country...
...friend, where the women surrender trolley seats to boys and rank no higher than condiments at table, where dinner ends with soup, and the guests, invited for eight o'clock, arrive at six or ten. But the Rudofsky tour is conducted with such irresistible charm, wit, grace and style that the reader is inspired to affection, if not understanding, for the enigmatic Japanese. The book is profusely illustrated with old woodcuts and drawings that handsomely convey "the aroma of the Japanese cultural climate," which was the author's purpose...
Dedijer's strength included a grace of personal relations. To me, the reporter, he recalled his days as a correspondent in London. With a history student he spoke of the assassination at Sarajevo, then switched to the problems of peasant revolution for the May 2nd crowd. He told jokes in Italian about the Bulgarians, and chatted in English (with occasional Russian) about the Partisan War. An Eastern European whose father was born the peasant serf of a Turkish bey, he smiled a little when slipping in words like "hip" and "camp." He felt at home...