Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tormented Faces. Richard Nixon gave Mrs. Gandhi a gracious welcome on the South Lawn of the White House. It was a glorious autumn day in Washington, with the flags snapping in the wind and monuments gleaming in the sunshine. Thirteen silver trumpets sounded a fanfare from the White House portico. Then Mrs. Gandhi, regal in a brown sari and cashmere cape, reviewed the troops with the President...
...competitive manner of a coach. Sometimes he sounds perilously similar to Pat O'Brien asking the team to win one for the Gipper. "I like competition," he says. "Free enterprise is competition in goddam near its purest form. I hate to lose-but I'm a gracious winner...
...tour of the Forbidden City. That afternoon, they resumed talks with Chou in the Great Hall of the People in Peking. The second session lasted as long as the first: about eight hours. In the dramatic settings for the talks, said a White House official, the Chinese were "enormously gracious and polite. On the human level, we were treated extraordinarily well. The mood of the session was precise and businesslike. There was no rhetoric on either side. We spoke frankly, directly and I believe usefully. It was not a conversation in which either side was trying to hold the other...
...Agnew abroad is dignified, correct and, above all, distant, the gracious teatime and dinner companion of potentates and princes, ministers and maharajahs. Tall and tanned, he is meticulous to the point of having every last hair in place, even after stepping out of a minor gale. He has done his homework. In private talks and ceremonial functions, Agnew, from all available evidence, has performed flawlessly. Perhaps too flawlessly...
...generally doubted. Scientific discovery is Progress, while mathematical deduction is Poetry, neither category being fitting for anybody's breakfast table. About cosmic theory you shouldn't ask. Medical research is probably a Good Thing, although Michael Crichton is not. To s. and e, revolution, of course, right on. The gracious humanities are My Field at Harvard, and as such inseparable from my daily dose of disappointment. Crime is a confusing issue...