Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...return. "God knows what they could have gotten my mother to say," Clinton joked, joining Gingrich in his mockery of the press. To complete the reconciliations, Gingrich and his mother later accepted a handwritten invitation to the White House from Mrs. Clinton -- hereafter to be known as the gracious First Lady. When Gingrich emerged from the White House, he said he sensed "a very real willingness to try to find a way to try to work together." The White House liked much of what Gingrich said. For example, on who could offer the bigger tax cuts: "We cannot have...
What the Clintons don't understand as they make nice with the Gingriches is that the offense is not that the First Lady hasn't been gracious enough but that she has presumed too much. As Hillary was inviting Gingrich and Mom to the White House, buttons were spotted on Capitol Hill...
Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats President Maggie L. Carter '96 tried to temper her party's losses with some gracious bipartisanship...
...there a deft little lesson here in how to distinguish raw genius from cautiously tutored craft? You bet there is. But Allen and McGrath also recognize how rude, disturbing and inconvenient greatness can be. And they grant gracious absolution to pretentious mediocrity, once it learns its place. Allen bathes his fable in a seductive, rosy light, grants everyone in the wonderful ensemble cast a comic high point, and gives us a film that combines impeccable craftsmanship and a basic exuberance that's been missing from his work for years...
...violates U.S. popular and congressional opinion and virtually every lesson learned in Vietnam) became, in the sunshine of Carter's smile and hunger for a Nobel Prize, honorable men. General Cedras has a "slim and very attractive" wife, Carter told the New York Times. And Lady Macbeth was a gracious hostess. Cedras, a notably bloody and ruthless man on a bloody, miserable island, should go and teach Carter's Sunday school class sometime. Carter, citizen of the world, seems to have missed class the day we learned that even a character like Hitler can turn on the charm...