Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flame that tempers the bright steel of your youth never die, but burn always; so that when your work is done and your long day ended, you may still be like a watchman's fire at the end of a lonely road-loved and cherished for your gracious glow by all good wayfarers who need light in their darkness and warmth for their comfort...
...peaceful times it would be my task to tell you of the pleasant colleges years ahead of you and to forecast for you lives of intelligence, comfort, and gracious living. Today that sort of message would be an absurdity. You are not Harvard men merely by the agreeable application of an established usage. You--and all the other young men in America of your age--were forced to a sudden maturity by the tragedy of December...
...sensitive nerve end in U.S.-Asiatic relations-the absence of American diplomats whose prestige matches the importance of Asia in the 1942 world-Franklin Roosevelt applied some balm last week. To serve as his "personal representative" in India he appointed suave, gracious William Phillips, a top-flight career diplomat who has held many an important post since he left Harvard Law School for the State Department...
...make school parties vital as the best possible way to blow off the lid. Yet without this Faculty reasonableness, the future dancing of the red-blooded Harvard man would have to be squeezed into the anemic form of Common Room record dances. The last time the University made this gracious gesture, excessive breakage and undergraduates welching on promises forced it to draw back. Another failure and it won't be repeated...
...Profane. The strongest impression communicated by December 7 is that the Japanese attack, coming when it did, calculated to stun and sicken the people by outraging the season that stands for a symbol of peace, to wreak the maximum psychological havoc by undoing a time so beloved and gracious, unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed...