Word: gracefulness
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Already an American classic, the painting Saying Grace is destined for even more fame. Last week Ronald Reagan, part of whose appeal lies in his ability to look around him and view the world in a Rockwell sort of way, proclaimed this picture his favorite one by the artist. The President also has a special fondness for a portrait Rockwell did in 1968 for Look magazine in a series on presidential possibilities: Ronald Reagan...
...locking out the modern world, the country has also, in effect, locked in the legacy of its British past, and with it an air of sweet nostalgia. In the pine-scented hill station of Maymyo (named after one Colonel May), tidy rose gardens still grace half-timbered houses with names like All in All and Fernside, and horse-drawn victorias recall a gaslighted London. The town's central clock tolls with the exact chime of Big Ben, and the local rest house, formerly the chummery, or bachelor's quarters, of the Bombay-Burma Trading Co., still serves roast beef each...
...Western" ignores Maimonides' own description of himself. In a letter to Rabbi Jonathan HaKohein of Luniel (Provence), Maimonides says, "Torah consecrated me to her before my birth . . . She is my true love, the wife of my youth. The other cultures are but women to serve me and cast grace on my wife . . . Regrettably, they distract me from my only life-mate, the Torah." By his own declaration, Maimonides was purely Jewish...
...weight. If he reports in shape next year, he could be a player. Otherwise, write him off." That would be terribly hard now. As much or as little as Perry is, he personally never claimed to be anything more. This may have been his dignity and surely was his grace. "The Perry thing, as much as anything," Ditka says, "made people think, 'Hey, these guys are having fun.' It was kind of flukish, the way it happened." If the Perry thing gave a sort of melancholy life to that smoky old carnival bark, "Monsters of the Midway," the Perry person...
...care centers, abruptly pulled out of the business last year. The handful of insurers that will still write day-care policies insist either on specifically excluding claims for damages arising from sexual abuse or setting up rules for strict supervision, such as unannounced visits by special investigators. Says Suzanne Grace, associate director of the Georgia Day Care Association: "The insurers are telling us, 'We don't care what your record is.' This business has the perceived risk of killing an insurance company...