Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Cambridge, Ramsey entered Cuddesdon College, a theological seminary near Oxford, and began his rapid and seemingly effortless rise to the top rank of the Established Church. He served for two years as a deacon and priest in a Liverpool slum parish before moving on to more gracious livings in Lincoln, Boston, Durham and Cambridge. His first theological writings-The Gospel and the Catholic Church, The Resurrection of Christ, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ-earned him applause in churchly reviews and a promotion to Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Then 45, he already looked...
...Mocow Film Festival provided an excuse for lots of parties, at which Western envoys and Soviet functionaries mixed amiably with such movie stars as Shelley Winters, Susan Strasberg, Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. At week's end Khrushchev finally turned to his other guests and, in a relatively gracious gesture, tossed the Red Chinese a farewell dinner. Although described as "friendly," the meal could have produced little beyond dyspepsia, for Khrushchev had spoiled the table talk in advance, delivering an oratorical blast at Peking that in effect declared political war on the Chinese...
...others, who knew Beckwith better, were less surprised. To them, that gracious smile was merely the facade of a twisted, troubled personality...
Maker of a gracious home and gracious hostess to every nation; creator of good will by willing the good of all people...
...also joined several hundred people for a charity affair aboard a ship that steamed outside the three-mile limit for an evening of gambling and dancing. Among those present were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, with whom the Rockefellers were photographed. The Duchess said she thought Happy was "gracious," and expressed the hope that "they will be very happy, as we are after 26 years of marriage." It was a nice, normal thought. But people kept comparing Rocky to that other man who gave up high office for the woman he loved...