Word: gracefully
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...interlocking complexity of it - the way a complete lack of health care, for instance, can all by itself consign someone to ignorance and joblessness. But you're also struck by how so many of the people who have been dealt these difficult hands manage to play them with grace and fortitude. That may sound trite to some ears, but it probably wouldn't to anyone who has spent time with James Lowe...
...This is my ninth New Hampshire primary, and I've seen this scene before. It is always heartbreaking, infuriating; it is always about health insurance. Biden handled the encounter with a lovely Celtic grace, but it was odd all the same-an emotional moment in a presidential quest that few people are taking seriously. Biden has been a U.S. Senator for 35 years. He has the strongest foreign policy credentials of any of the candidates in the field-in a year when such expertise should be paramount. And yet in the latest New Hampshire poll he is rocking along...
...National Gallery of Victoria until Oct. 7, some of these will rub shoulders with cutting-edge contemporaries such as performance artist Marina Abramovic, photographer Gregory Crewdson and Matthew Barney, who refuses to be confined to one medium. The latter also happens to grace Peggy's palazzo, albeit very oddly, in the current show "All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys." Rylands imagines Guggenheim "would have been intrigued and bemused" by Barney's Baroque video antics. Still, "the avant-garde experience is absolutely Peggy's spirit"-one that's intoxicating Melbourne right...
Lady Bird never liked the term "beautification." What she was doing went beyond that, something to hold the land, bring grace and meaning to scarred lives. "You reporters come up with another word," she used to say. But nobody has yet. Maybe it was unnecessary because she was her own symbol, a woman very much in harmony with the natural world around her. She rafted down rivers, camped out in the national parks, studied ruins. She also founded what is now named the Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center at the University of Texas...
...Grace Tiao ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history of science and English and American literature and language concentrator in Currier House. This summer she is performing the endlessly and inexcusably self-indulgent exercise of interning for a literary magazine...