Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elegant little speech at the Academy Awards imbroglio the other night, Jacques Tati modestly observed that he was Hollywood's nephew, not its uncle. His gracious self-deprecation probably escaped much of the audience, so mightily absorbed in figuring its scores and misses in terms of lucre...
...terse rhythm. The latter, perhaps less clear in its contemplation of man's past seen as a view from a high hill, moves quietly to its assertion that every crag achieved on the climb is part of the final reward, the vision from the summit. Other poems in this gracious vein are "Words from the Genius of a Place," "Deaths," and "Morning After Wedding Night...
...uncommon for the popular hunters. Luxury is at an alltime high too. Today no high-class safari leaves Nairobi without comforts that range from a special scout car for the client and his white hunter to five-ton trucks that haul the amenities of gracious living-tents, radios, refrigerators, portable showers and toilets...
...about his hitting this year, and at first he just shook his head. "Well, maybe Martin, maybe Harrington, maybe Boulris," he said after a moment. "But we've had some real good hitters the past few years--I mean fellows like Cleary and Hathaway and Saia--and my good gracious how we're going to miss them...
Surely the crowded seating and ugly surroundings are a far cry from President Lowell's orginal vision of the house dining halls as centers of social and intellectual intercourse in an atmosphere of gracious living. Some would say that the lamentable condition in the house dining halls is a necessary sacrifice for the furthering of the house drama. A dining hall, however, is basically a place in which to eat. House drama groups should not be allowed to disrupt dining hall life except immediately before and during their performances. Better planning would lighten the load on the already severely taxed...