Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ideally in the Houses, "historical truth, scientific discovery, mathematical deduction, cosmic theory, medical research, sociological and economic revolution and the gracious humanities appear at the breakfast table as vital and important as the citizen's daily does of crime and disappointment."-David McCord, quoted in Information about Radcliffe...
...blacks, East Orange has been the first step out from the city, from Newark or New York, a reach for a suburban hinterland of open space and green grass and fresh air. Once it was that for wealthy whites. Long before World War II, it was a gracious, self-contained suburb with some mansions that verged on the palatial, imposing apartment buildings, a Baptist seminary and Upsala College...
...forget). Patty who braved to God to let her and her mother alone, Patty and Billy who had a little girl before I got to Harvard, Patty who naturally had trouble with the birth so she and Billy wouldn't be able to have any more kids soon, gracious, lovely Patty said to me after the pep rally, while she was walking arm in arm with Bill (Porky) while Bill was still laughing about the coach's remark about the reason for putting me at split end, Patty looked me right in the eye and said...
...Jean Cocteau some time ago, "it is not because she cut women's hair, married silk and wool, put pearls on sweaters, avoided poetic labels on her perfumes, lowered the waistline or raised the waistline and obliged women to follow her directives; it is because-outside of this gracious and robust dictatorship-there is nothin» in her era that she has missed...
...most of the very distinguished economists with whom you consult have, until very lately, disagreed. Now circumstances, implacable as always, have shown you and your advisers to be wrong. Instead of handsomely conceding your error and theirs, you rebuke me for advocating the only effective alternative. Is that gracious, let alone kind? Better. I would think, that you should wonder if you and your advisers, in now urging jawboning, other forms of incantation, an undefined evasion called an incomes policy and other banal gestures aren't still deep in wishful thought...