Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying to Be Gracious. It's easy to enjoy the game when you have horses like McCutchan's. Forward Jerry Sloan turned down a $14,000 offer from the Baltimore Bullets to play one more year of college ball. Larry Humes, a 6-ft. 4-in. forward, is averaging 32.8 points a game, Center Herb Williams is only 6 ft. 3 in., but he can leap 11 ft. 4 in. Northwestern was fresh from a big victory over Kansas when it stopped by Evansville for a "breather." Guard Sam Watkins scored 26 points and Evansville...
...took great interest in welcoming new members of the History Department and their families to Cambridge. Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, said of her, "Generations of Harvard historians and their wives will remember her as a great lady, gracious, educated, and to the end involved in everything that went on about...
...crystal coach drawn by six white horses, Queen Elizabeth rode in state last week to the Palace of Westminster for the ceremonial opening of a new Parliament. Seldom has that arcane ritual seemed more at odds with reality. Elizabeth's "most gracious speech from the throne," written for the monarch by the first Labor government in her eleven-year reign, was a catalogue of welfare statism that immediately challenged the Tories' disposition to let the new administration "play itself in." Gambling its slender, five-seat majority in the House of Commons, Labor declared its determination to renationalize...
Boston, for instance, has laid waste to 60 slum acres in the center of town and is erecting there a $200 million Government center; Washington has turned a 560-acre jungle south of the Capitol into a paradise of gracious living; New York City has so much private building that the streets are all but impassable, and with the help of Government funds, has rehoused a population that, taken together, would make the 28th largest city in the U.S. Chicago has 27 redevelopment and four conservation projects that in five years will have transformed 514 city blocks; even Los Angeles...
...Escape. Despite such entrapping juxtapositions, Chambers finally rejected Communism because it was ineradicably evil, but he wrote: "I have found that the mood of Communism (despite its atrocious features) is a mood of hope, while the West (despite its gracious features) promotes a mood of despair...