Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sensed more about him than one knew, and what one sensed was all pretty good. He seemed to handle everything with a bouncy grace, including his share of mistakes. He didn't look or sound like a Kennedy, and did not seem to have picked up the family gene for recklessness. In short, he was as much an emblem of the family as a member of it, and for the observing public, he was useful as a figure to dream into...
...pain of last Saturday it was possible to be grateful that Jackie had died first, this woman who had taught the country how to mourn in grace. We could not have borne to watch her bury...
...born with the burden of fame, but he handled it with patience and humor, and more. Ben Bradlee wrote a book about President Kennedy after he died, and it was called That Special Grace. J.F.K. Jr. had it too, though history didn't give him wars and great movements in which to show...
...starting to leave, young John Kennedy stepped up to the casket of his mother and the gravestone of his father. He leaned forward and stretched toward them and put his hand upon each with a touch that was more like a kiss. It was an act of great physical grace, and love, and maybe it was done in part on behalf of a country that felt as he did--a generous gesture like the one 30 years before when a little boy made a salute...
...Reported by Julie Grace and Timothy Roche/Chicago and Elaine Shannon/Washington