Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand for the nostalgic, two-hour East Room ceremony, which commemorated the late President's 85th birthday, were three of F.D.R.'s children, Anna, Franklin Jr. and John, as well as such aging Roosevelt aides as former Attorney General Francis Biddle and F.D.R.'s personal secretary, Grace Tully. Carefully characterizing himself "not as a judge of painting, but as a judge of men," L.B.J. nonetheless could not resist noting that Shoumatoff's likeness of his political idol was "a portrait I like." Commissioned by the White House Historical Association, it will displace a painting of George...
...varnish it, and they cannot cover the film's faults. The waifs of German-occupied Warsaw are too plump and well padded, the armies seem too clean and well mannered. And the officers are too self-consciously symbolic of Germany's decadence and decency, grossness and grace. Somewhere beneath it all is a plausible plot and a powerful picture gone wrong...
...runs like a black thread through the fabric of American Jewish literature-from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Saul Bellow's Herzog. In Meyer Meyer, Author Helen Hudson follows the pattern by providing a translation of her own. In the secular cities of the earth, grace is granted not to those who reach up to God, but to those who reach...
Inside, not a single one of the barefoot Cliffies that usually grace the building was in sight. Instead, a select group of Radcliffe trustees, staff, the College Council, and the library's donors gathered for the dedication ceremony, and later admired the building while they sipped champagne...
...doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!') collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...