Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alien even at home, a man bred to the observation of outsiders from inside. He is a Scotsman born in London, reared in Australia. His mother was Novelist Angela Thirkell. Maclnnes escaped Australia and a law scholarship in 1930 at 16, spent five years in Brussels, a businessman by grace of a family connection, but by nature a bohemian who spent much of his time "consorting with writers, painters, musicians." For three years in London he studied painting, "until I was rescued by the army." After the war, he joined BBC Radio and began to write...
...learning but observance of the elementary rules of hygiene and sanitation as well. "Free time does not amount to idleness," warns Sociologist G. S. Petrosian. "It is the time devoted to study, the raising of [occupational] qualifications, self-education and self-development." As Pravda puts it with typical elephantine grace, "To care about the cultural recreation of the people is, above all, to ensure the conditions making it possible for the working people to spend their free time in such a way as to raise their general cultural and professional level, to improve [themselves] physically and esthetically...
...Charmed Grace...
...narrative instead of abstract. It offers an almost invisible way of dancing that emphasizes detail-perfect simplicity and linear beauty rather than energy and showmanship. The Royal can often be cold, bloodless and impersonal, but at its best, it presents ballet that is marked by finish, accuracy and singing grace...
Taking Guff. The give and take was so informal at times that some of the participants were actually shouting at the bishops. The prelates, in turn, took their knocks with considerable grace. When he was asked how Catholics could communicate better with their bishops, the Most Rev. Peter L. Gerety of Portland, Me., replied: "Just yell." One priest complained angrily that he had just been "slandered across the diocese by my bishop." Boise's Bishop Sylvester W. Treinen, for his part, said: "I've taken more guff from priests than I've given...