Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decorators would pick any one of the Kennedy houses as a model of gracious living or inventive design. But the best indication that the Kennedy establishments succeed as homes-as thoroughly comfortable "machines for living"-is the almost invariable reaction of visitors: "I'd like to live there...
...between 12,000 and 54,000, which will eventually grow to between 20,000 and 100,000. The cities were supposed to be "an essay in civilization, an opportunity to design, evolve, and carry into execution for the benefit of coming generations the means for a happy and gracious way of life." Major complaint against the planned way of life: "Loneliness and lack of neighborliness." Used to the grubby intimacy of city life, transplanted urbanites missed the profusion of corner pubs, neighborhood dance halls, local cinemas, and the ready help of neighbors and friends. Psychiatric cases are significantly higher than...
...Lights & Fizz. Aboard his flagship, Anderson was a gracious host to many world political figures. He was always careful to court them with such niceties as dimming the lights when their national anthem was played. Only a social drinker himself, he kept them more or less happy by serving a fizzy grape drink that looked and popped corks like champagne, yet did not violate the Navy ban on shipboard alcohol...
...Radcliffe. At the Cedar Hill conference this February, she requested students to describe their vision of the ideal dormitory. Second only to the cries for small living units co-ordinated along the line of the Harvard Houses were the requests for larger dining rooms and longer meal hours. Gracious living as Radcliffe now defines it has fallen from favor. Many a Faculty member shuns the Quad at mealtimes, remembering the night he sat transfixed by eight pairs of blank eyes while the girl on his left politely inquired what courses he was teaching this term. Unable to offset the institutional...
Whatever his other difficulties. Jack Kennedy last week maintained his status as the most fascinating Washington personality in years. Beyond greeting a flock of ceremonial guests, he acted, with Jackie radiant at his side, as a gay and gracious host at the sleekest, best-planned reception within White House memory...