Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving somewhat belatedly on the scene last week, 50 foreign newsmen trooped past a pair of gazelles and a frolicsome antelope on the gracious lawns of bullet-pocked Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa. Inside, they learned from Emperor Haile Selassie (the Elect of God, the Lion of Judah, etc.) the official story on the army revolt that had bloodied the capital city just a few days before. The attempted coup, said the Emperor, had been the work of a "small, isolated group of officers." According to Haile Selassie, the rebels' own proclamations demanding an end to oppression and poverty...
...this very moment," the editorial concluded, "groups of Southern electors are on record as bombastically bragging that their states' mandates in the matter of casting of electoral votes need not be obeyed. At this very moment one of the South's truly civilized and gracious cities, New Orleans, is torn by ugly racial strife openly encouraged by those sworn to uphold the laws. Should the Confederacy be established, such shenanigans would be of no more than parochial interest, to be regarded by the 37 United States in the same light as revolts in Iran . . . The Southerners could...
Beyond that, there were no specifics. "The fact that I am here indicates, I think, what my desire is for our relationship," said Kennedy in a post-meeting press conference. "A very gracious act," said Nixon at his own separate conference. "I, of course, would have been very glad to have called upon him, and the fact that he wanted to come here, I think, is an excellent example of how our American system works." Nixon took pains to say that he and Kennedy agreed on "the proper role of an opposition party and of an opposition leader"-a remark...
Block & Tackle. Around the gracious, red brick campus, the football area is known tersely as "Vaught's Valley." Into the valley each afternoon strides Coach Vaught, his square shoulders bulging a red sweatshirt out of shape, to teach a brand of football that is as tough as he looks-and as tough as he himself once played. Back at Texas Christian they still remember one tackle made in 1932 by All-America Guard Vaught that left both the ball carrier and himself lying senseless on the field. "I'm a fundamentalist," Vaught says. "I believe in perfection...
...indelibly in the non-hero's mind, partly because he always lives his life flashbackwards. Nathan is forever recalling Amy arched against the sky on a diving board at poolside on her aunt's rambling estate. In disenchantment novels, these rambling estates are the toys of a gracious childhood soon to be whisked away by that legendary anti-Santa, the '29 crash. Nathan has his losses too-a father to cancer, a mother to an insane asylum. As Novelist Wilson handles them, these are life's little ironies...