Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delhi to accept the $13,300 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, which was given to her husband posthumously. After accepting the honor from India's President Zakir Husain, Mrs. King listened to a group of students softly sing We Shall Overcome, and, in a gracious speech, said: "My heart is greatly warmed and my spirit is greatly lifted by this profound recognition. I accept it as a tribute to a well-fought fight in progress. To the great task ahead, I humbly rededicate my life...
...place." That is true enough. With all of the capital's social problems, new, civic-minded leading citizens can find plenty of good causes to work for. Though John Kennedy once cracked that Washington is "a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm," it also boasts a gracious, glittering social life...
...think I could have been defeated by anyone else in the U.S. Senate," said Louisiana's Russell Long. "And my guess is that I would have taken any other opponent by about a 2-to-1 margin." That point scored, he continued with a less gracious observation: "This happens to have been a race where it was a nationwide proposition, and while I had Senator Kennedy outgunned in the United States Senate, he had me outgunned in the United States...
...Williams, or now by confessionalism. What is so remarkable about Wilbur is the way in which he belongs to other ages than his own, without ignoring the crises of the present. In a rare political poem he read at Harvard, Wilbur spoke of President Johnson's less than gracious response to a portrait he commissioned; "Wait, sir, and see how time will render you,/ Who talk of vision but have no sight." "The Marginal Way," a poem about the dying capacity for celebration, confessed "the time's fright within me," alluding to Auschwitz, and knew some newspaper on a porch...
Productive Leisure. The memoirs are part of what is rapidly becoming Abel's own five-foot shelf of recollected life and works. In a recent interview published in the Russian youth magazine Smena, he describes the gracious pastimes that a KGB colonel like himself engages in during his spare time: playing Bach on the lute and the classical guitar, landscape drawing. Abel's most productive leisure hours were apparently spent in U.S. penitentiaries while serving 41 of his 30-year sentence for espionage. Here, he claims, he sketched a portrait of President Kennedy so fine that Attorney General...