Word: gracefully
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...make it a success, or at least entertaining. What we have at the Mainstage is a whole lot of ambition being spread thinly over many different elements. As a result, the music and book are weak and the technical aspects suffer (sets and costumes are handled with the grace of an elementary school production...
...believed in winning with grace and losingwith dignity and determination...
...said never again," recalls Graham, who put everyone on straight salary and later set up a board dominated by outsiders. (Graham has, however, ministered to his wayward fellow preachers; after Jim Bakker's fall from grace, he quietly visited the imprisoned televangelist in Minnesota for a prayer session.) For years Graham's annual salary was $69,150 plus a $23,050 housing allowance, but last April his board raised that to $101,250 plus $33,750. He was given homes in Florida and California but donated them to Christian causes...
...second full day, legislators grew impatient. Finally Tuesday evening, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia implored his embattled colleague to sacrifice himself for the larger good: "None of us is without flaws. But when those flaws damage the institution of the Senate, it is time to have the grace...
...merit, from this century or any other, is unfamiliar. ("Scrupulous. Sympathetic. Measured," says Robert Hughes, whom Porterfield persuaded to come to TIME in 1970 over lunch at a London bistro called the Gay Hussar.) And our entire staff recognizes in Porterfield a journalist who embodies the sort of grace, civility and honesty that the rest of us can merely strive for. Yet he would swallow his tie before endorsing such a view...