Word: gracefulness
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...about how Davis--whose ego is a frequent subject of industry jokes ("Why does Clive Davis like CDs more than tapes? He thinks they were named after him")--would respond, he surprised his critics, friends and corporate overlords by stepping aside without a peep. As a reward for his grace, Davis was given seed money to start J Records, where in a short time he piloted Alicia Keys to five Grammys and 10 million worldwide album sales. In November 2002 slumping BMG decided that perhaps Davis was still vigorous enough to lead both J and its RCA label; BMG bought...
There are religious traditions--the Jesuits, the Jews, the Shi'ites, certain suffering segments of Protestantism--for which grace is a constant anguish, a goal never quite attained but approached through learning or good works. "The Evangelicals take their marching orders from Paul, who said you have to 'work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,'" Martin E. Marty, the University of Chicago theologian, told me last week. "The implication is that once you've worked it out, once you've been born again, you don't have to be fearful or tremble so much anymore...
...result is Grace Street Church, next door to The Inn at Harvard, which every Sunday evening at 7:15 p.m. is bursting with new-age worship music and students raising their arms in praise...
...seek out a player, watch him play, fly him to Harvard, and encourage him to choose Harvard over other schools, only to give him the axe less than two months into the school year. Anderle, though initially hurt and frustrated at the decision, has handled it with remarkable grace and maturity. He acknowledges that he only began playing basketball three years ago, as an exchange student in Los Angeles—previously, he had played soccer...
Forgotten as they were by George and Everett, though, Grace and the Glenns have achieved some measure of immortality with their forgotten inscriptions: seventy-five years after they made their Christmas and birthday presents, I note their generosity...