Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reticence is advisable, resilience is crucial. Losers should always focus not on what might have been but on what still can be. In both fiction and life, Ernest Hemingway displayed the good loser's grace under pressure and sheer joy in struggle. "I am a little beat up," he reported after a serious air crash in 1954, "but I assure you it is only temporary." Overall, he may have lacked the truly good loser's ability to anticipate defeat and keep alternate courses open...
...Chicago should have been the coup de grace to the myth of objectivity," a staff reporter observed in the CRIMSON (Oct. 28, 1968). For newsmen who were angered by police attacks on young people (and reporters) the most traumatic thing they learned "was simply that they had these feelings, even in the line of duty," the writer said. Mailer's style of personal reporting "is at least the direction that journalism should move...
...coup de grace, the difficulty in criticizing the press for objectivity--or for sterility or untruthfulness under its guise--is that the term objectivity is greatly abused. One textbook definition of responsible journalism ("...to print the news courageously and impartially") doesn't even use the word, perhaps to avoid misconception...
...Jacqueline Kennedy! A name with poetry in it. Grace and greatness, culture, courage, beauty, bravery, femininity and family. We were proud of you, Jackie. We sorrowed with you, we wrote letters to you, we boasted about you. Every Indian home was your home. Now, for a handful of silver you left us. Why did you let us down? The tears are blinding...
...hungering for gut reaction instead of grace is a hallmark of the times. It is perhaps significant that the young who have made it so constitute the most intensively educated generation in U.S. history; the endocrine charge that goes with intemperate talk and action may be nature's way of counterbalancing an overemphasis on cool rationality, much as a calcium-deficient child is moved to nibble plaster off the wall. Miss Terry's style of gut theater fits in with this new act-it-out, confrontation mode. But the excitement of real life does not transfer...