Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resulted in scenes reminiscent of the Oklahoma land rush. The surge in sales is causing a boom in construction, attracting speculators, and hiking prices to levels that are unrealistically high, even for the normally inflated real estate market in Southern California. Says Frank Carr, executive vice president of W.R. Grace Properties, Inc., a land-developing arm of W.R. Grace & Co.: "I've never seen anything like it. You have to call it hysteria...
...criticize; almost everything it does could have been done better. On the other hand, it is a very difficult movie to judge because it takes up a previously forbidden subject-the blacklisting of showfolk suspected of Communist leanings during the early '50s-and has the nerve, and grace, to take an absurdist view of that deplorable era. For that, and for Woody Allen's fine performance (against his usual comic grain) in the title role, it deserves respectful attention...
...hedge. He bounces just a couple of inches, laughs and gets up, delighted. The boy's mother faints on the spot as her son toddles off to play. "Remarkable," says a teacher who lives next door. His pregnant wife explains: "Kids are in a state of grace. They bounce back...
...attitude places the man in one of four categories ranging from passive-negative to active-positive, with active-negative producing the greatest potential for tragedy, active-positive the best hope for progress. Already some observers have rated Ford passive-positive and Carter a near active-negative who by the grace of God slipped into the active-positive category...
Ernest Hemingway's definition of courage-"grace under pressure"-is as good a yardstick as any for Americans to use as Ford and Carter march through this campaign, says Barber. But it will be up to each person to devise his own definition of both grace and pressure. A campaign is but the tip of the mountain, the debates just a small part of that. Yet, says Barber, the character clues will be there for us to see, even in the debates, though those constitute a mere 4/^-hour capsule of more than half a century of living...