Word: gracefulness
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Mary “the Lion” Howland Linus and Grace “the Deer” Lowell Forbes Kennedy, both class of 1899, founded the society in 1898 along the lines of final clubs and fraternities...
This season, the junior who transferred to Cambridge after a year-long stint at Michigan State is ready to go. No more grace period—and, perhaps, no more time on the bench...
...legendary French restaurant guide whose ratings make or break the great chefs of Europe-is, after all, famously stingy in doling out stars. It has granted its single star to only 1,500 out of the 45,000 eateries and hotels it has scrutinized, and its coveted three stars grace only 50 restaurants in all of the EU. Michelin claims the stars are based on "what's on the plate," but most chefs don't buy that. "There had to be so many inches between the tables to go a step up," says leading New York chef David Bouley...
...traditions, its military academies, its ancient regiments and hero stories, its Iliads, its flash. Peace is not exciting. Its accoutrements are, almost by definition, unremarkable if they work well. It is a rare society that tells exemplary stories of peacemaking -- except, say, for the Gospels of Christ, whose irenic grace may be admired from a distance, without much effect on daily behavior. Kant said that even a race of devils, provided they were intelligent, would be forced to find a solution other than war for their disputes. ''Nature,'' Kant thought, ''guarantees the final establishment of peace through the mechanism...
Dean Gross’s idiosyncratic head tosses and suitably muted intonations made for a quietly passionate narration that reinforced the visions of a golden America inspired by the music. With the timing and grace of an experienced performer, Gross’s stirring final recitation that “this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth” perfectly matched the culminating swell of orchestral music...