Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...list of worries, but Mikhail Gorbachev seems to have fallen from grace with many Western experts on the Soviet Union. Even among some who applauded him in the past, there is not only a deepening pessimism about the future of reform but also a new, almost ad hominem sourness about the chief reformer himself...
...does not regard any existing nation as truly communist. The Soviet Union left the fold in the 1960s under Krushchev, and China itself fell from grace with the rise of China's current leader, Deng Xiaoping, Lawrence says...
Note that this reasoning is applied only to Jews. When other people suffer -- Vietnamese, Algerians, Palestinians, the French Maquis -- they are usually allowed a grace period during which they are judged by a somewhat lower standard. The victims are, rightly or wrongly (in my view, wrongly), morally indulged. A kind of moral affirmative action applies. We are asked to understand the former victims' barbarities because of how they themselves suffered. There has, for example, been little attention to and less commentary on the 150 Palestinians lynched by other Palestinians during the intifadeh. How many know that this year as many...
...Buster's manager John Johnson, helped steer his fighter through recent family tragedies -- especially the death of his mother Lula last month -- and toward a bout with Tyson. Boxing savants expected it to be one more anonymous sacrifice to the Kong of sport. But Douglas had strength, stamina and grace. And he lacked what other Tyson victims have brought into the ring: fear of an "Iron Mike" mugging...
...Mandela, the burden of his legend seems almost more than any one man can bear. A study in dignity, intelligence and unflappability, he is showing amazing grace as he moves from his symbolic role as a political prisoner to the more demanding one of a political activist. His challenge will become still tougher if he begins negotiating some kind of political compromise. "No individual leader is able to take on these enormous tasks on his own," he reminded listeners last week. The question is whether Mandela's children and grandchildren will be as magnanimous -- and patient -- as the elder statesman...