Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they almost seem to burn the film. Similarly, the leading characters-an eminent if controversial scientist and socialist, his beautiful daughter who is suffocating in a bourgeois marriage, his erratic lawyer-son who is so devoted to his trapped sister that he would kill for her-are creatures of grace and period charm, but their own picturesque passions are so tearfully intense as to sear their souls...
...Grace Lemuel Winchester...
...familiar was familiar all right, because physically the town has not changed all that much in a quarter of a century; the crepe myrtles still grace the houses, which go by the family names of four generations ago. But the strange, in this case, was stranger yet, and came in waves: the Secret Service men with their crackling radios, and the communications technicians and the White House advance people, and then the TV people and newspaper and magazine reporters, and next the curious from other towns, and finally the firemen and troopers and deputies from other towns...
With so many changes in the works, the last thing the automakers need is an abortive start to the autumn selling season. Yet that is exactly what may happen if Congress does not amend the Clean Air Act before adjourning later this month. The car makers want a grace period before having to meet the strict auto pollution standards for 1978, claiming that present technology will not permit them to meet the goals without driving up gas consumption beyond the limits set by other federal laws. Though Congress has not yet acted, the automakers have tooled up their...
...Life is unfair," John Kennedy observed at a press conference one day in 1962. The thought had a certain stoic grace about it: its truth was brutally confirmed the following year in Dallas. Life is unfair. Kennedy was talking about citizens' military obligations, about the restive Army reservists who were being held on active duty even after the Berlin crisis had subsided. Now Jimmy Carter has brought up the unfairness doctrine to explain his policy on abortion. Somehow the dictum comes out this time with a mean-spirited edge, like something from the lips of Dickens' Mr. Podsnap...