Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Restoring Grace...
...biggest accomplishments has been to restore some measure of grace to a city not noted for its civility, and to slow, if only by a fraction, the numerous forces that make New York an increasingly unlivable city. Under Lindsay, the parks have been made into attractive recreational centers, with cafes and musicales and bicycling on roadways that are closed to cars on weekends and holidays. Air pollution has been cut slightly, and the level of design in civic architecture has been raised. Plans are being pushed through for a great network of new subways, and the grandiose, frequently destructive schemes...
Humanist Trinity. But Kate's assessment suffers when she tries to defend such stoic values as "Discipline, Responsibility, and Grace"-a humanist trinity of behavior that at times can be confused with Repression, Conformity and Manners...
CHICAGO should have been the coup de grace to the myth of objectivity, but unfortunately, instead of being liberated by their discovery, many journalists felt pushed in just the opposite direction...
...Government money). By suggesting that economic interests play a strong role in human events, Beard helped bring American history closer to the bitter realities of contemporary life. By implying that businessmen had betrayed the radical spirit of the American Revolution, he made U.S. history not a long fall from grace but an enduring crusade to restore lost revolutionary rights. (The fact that the Supreme Court for years regarded income tax laws as unconstitutional seemed to support Beard's contentions.) "Beardism," in any case, provoked savage attacks. The Marion Star, an Ohio newspaper owned by President-to-be Warren...