Word: gracefully
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...first black player. (Just last week officials in the small Florida town of Sanford issued an apology for their predecessors who forced Robinson off the field during a minor league game in 1946.) He won over hostile teammates, opponents and newsmen with his ferocity on the field and grace off it. In his 10 short years in the majors, he revolutionized base running and carved out a Hall of Fame career. And he never stopped taking a lead. In his last public appearance, during the 1972 World Series, he chided major league baseball for not having a black manager...
Stanley H. Hoffman, Buttenweiser University professor and one of Bundy's former students, praised his generosity, grace, "sense of fun" and innovation, emphasizing his introduction of the Freshman Seminar Program and the interdisciplinary concentration Social Studies...
Starting tonight, AAA will circulate a petition condemning the National Review in house dining halls. AAA co-President Grace Y. Shieh '99 said the organization will mail a copy of the petition to the Review's advertisers...
...videobooks be far behind? To promote her latest novel, Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood starred in a video intended for distribution to book clubs, which are hot these days and getting hotter. Moving into the social vacuum created by the decline of Tupperware parties while appealing to some of the same higher yearnings as 12 Step groups, book clubs are invading homes, apartments and even TV studios. It's ironic. Oprah Winfrey, the woman once charged with debasing American culture through years of tacky psychodramas, has become, in a flash, the torchbearer of literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni...
...irony to report that this venture, starring Wings? Steven Weber in the Jack Nicholson role of Jack Torrance, is richer, more horrific than Kubrick?s take. Sadly, notes TIME's Ginia Bellafante, this is not the case. "Strip away a zombie or two, and the menacing topiary animals that grace the lawn of the deserted Overlook Hotel, which Torrance, his wife Wendy (Rebecca De Mornay) and son Danny (Courtland Mead) are entrusted to care for over a long winter, and 'Stephen King?s The Shining' is no different from the standard movie-of-the-week that reminds...