Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasonable one.) Taylor's Prologue consists of a description of the fascinating and wide-ranging correspondence which ex-Presidents Adams and Jefferson carried on for ten years prior to their simultaneous deaths in 1826; the measure and reason which characterized their discussions of North vs. South, hard work vs. gracious living, education vs. natural genius soon disappeared from the discussions of these problems by later Southerners. Their correspondence "seemed, by the summer of 1861, to belong to another, faraway...
...rather fond of young Jack Kennedy. "He's a very attractive person," says the Senator from Virginia. "He's got ability, no doubt about that." The President of the U.S. returns the compliment-in a way. "You know," he has said, "Harry Byrd is the most gracious person you'd want to meet. But does he give us fits...
...Georgia, loftiest skyscraper in the Southeast. This year city officials expect to issue around $120 million worth of new building permits. From 1950 to 1960 metropolitan Atlanta's population jumped 40% to 1,017,188 and is still growing at the rate of 30,000 a year. The gracious belle of the old South has become the nation's newest boom town and managed to turn the trick without losing her poise or showing an ankle...
...Caribbean-per capita income of $359, the country has a pressing want list for low-cost housing, sanitation and water systems, hospitals and roads. All through the week's celebrations, Jamaica's Premier, craggy-faced, white-haired Sir Alexander Bustamante, courted Johnson with extravagant words and gracious gestures, talked endlessly of U.S.-Jamaican solidarity, even offered to let the U.S. set up military bases on the island "when and if it pleases." British and U.S. aid programs are already in the works for housing and water projects: the U.S. will put up $2,200,000 as a loan...
...luxury. The airplane was the prestigious way to Europe 15 years ago-now the steamship has status value because it takes longer. At the turn of the century, only the rich had autos; now-only they can afford horses. Electricity has made the once lowly candle a symbol of gracious living, and fireplaces are included only in the most astronomically expensive modern apartments...