Word: gracefulness
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...have worked to build and develop our country. Chief among the latter must stand HARRY OPPENHEIMER and his family; that they also fought in a particular manner for the former sets them apart in the gallery of South African patriots. I shall remember Harry as a man of exquisite grace and charm, a person with a simplicity and directness that was disarming in its spontaneity, and one who was accessible way beyond what was assumed about a person in his position. His support for democratic and philanthropic causes was in my experience always without hesitation and reserve. His contribution...
This realization undermines the centuries-old myth of Judaism as severe and unforgiving, a slave of Pharisaic ritual, as opposed to the grace and charity of its progeny religion. Lieberman will not dethrone Shylock, still the single most influential Jewish figure in Western culture, for whom the law is pitiless law. But Lieberman's prominence and practice will illuminate the little-appreciated fact that Rabbinic Judaism is an attempt to take a very stark document--the Bible--and, by interpretation and adaptation, make it habitable for fallible human beings...
...father as he chanted the Psalm softly with eyes closed. Thus did its every phrase and cadence become forever inscribed in my memory. To this day, whenever I hear the 23rd Psalm, I am filled with the most profound memories of father and family, of tranquillity and grace in gentle gathering darkness...
...postulates a conspiracy, called the Enterprise, between rogue elements in British and U.S. intelligence. These powerful, shadowy mavericks shake down high-rolling international crooks for big protection money and then use their law-enforcement connections to make sure the bad guys get away with their misdeeds. Which is how Grace Flint, on an undercover assignment from New Scotland Yard, gets her lovely face stomped in and many bones in her equally winning body broken during a blown operation in London...
...outgoing president should have the grace to look tired. Almost every president ages noticeably, alarmingly, in the White House. The immense burden is supposed to exhaust the man - look at Lyndon when they carried him out. Maybe we half-think a president hasn't done his job if he is not at least staggering a little at the end of the shift. Poor Franklin Roosevelt burned out and died in April 1945, after so much labor...