Word: gracefulness
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...says Leea Kielpinski, 28, a nurse in Oakland, Calif., whose nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son play competitive basketball. Most sports programs, despite their excesses, manage to promote the old virtues: self-confidence, personal responsibility, teamwork, persistence, the ability to win and lose with grace. "In an organized sport, Danny's got to learn a little teamwork, some structure and discipline," says Terrence Straub, a Washington steel executive and father of Daniel, 9, and two older sons...
Adiza Sanchez-Rahim, 12, knew nothing about violin when Roberta visited her first-grade class six years ago. Adiza is at an awkward age, but when she picks up the violin, she assumes a defiant grace. After all, she has taken lessons at Juilliard, performed in Switzerland and played for Oprah Winfrey. Says Adiza: "I'd be totally different without violin...
...this idea. I said, 'No, no. You're being silly. Time to go and have dinner.' But I kept on coming back to it. And I'd start telling the other writers I was working with, and we'd all break into laughter." Reilly will have another character, Grace Bennett (Dana Sparks), levitate through her French doors...
Sport at its best is a microcosm of our species' nobility. But if we revel in watching the grace, skill and determination of men and women, we also can't help noticing when this prism of our society also refracts us in all our prurience...
...today Paris remains suspended in limbo between its two identities, on the one hand the world center of fashion and finery, of grace and grandeur and, on the other, a beacon of hope for socialist ideals...