Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of it, to be sure, has a tacky, plastic, here-today-blown-tomorrow look, as if it were a city made of credit cards. But much of it has grace and substance. From nations to corporations, everybody is there to hawk and hornblow. All the crammed buildings are engaged in a mad struggle for attention. And somehow, in its jostling, heedless, undisciplined energy, it makes a person happy to be alive in the 20th century...
...World standards, John F. Kennedy was a hard act to follow. He was all grace and incisive confidence; by his very youth he seemed to bolster European faith in that vigorous young world power across the Atlantic. And by Old World standards, Lyndon Johnson was hardly the man to replace him: he was an American politician in the most pejorative sense of the word. In the six months since Lyndon Johnson took office, how has he fared in the European press...
...torture and flung in prison, he moves beyond immobility to action. In the dungeon with him is one worse off than he, a prisoner totally withdrawn and silent. After days of struggle to make contact, Michael brings the man to speak at last, and knows the touch of divine grace that accompanies the assumption of responsibility of each for each...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Grand Prix of Monaco with Prince Rainier and Princess Grace handing out awards, plus National Lumberjack championships from Wisconsin...
There seems to be something both pleasing and prestigious in having wild animals where you want them. The bachelor Prince Rainier of Monaco made a lasting impression on Movie Actress Grace Kelly by showing her around his private zoo, and he had plenty of royal precedent. Some 3,000 years ago, Egypt's Empress Hatasu sent out a whole fleet in search of new animals to stock her private menagerie; Emperor Wen, the first of China's Chou dynasty (12th century B.C.), had a collection of animals he called "the Garden of Intelligence"; Roman Emperor Octavius Augustus...