Word: graciousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked forward to shake hands with a very drunk English teacher attending a convention in the hotel. She wanted his autograph for her two daughters and blubbered fervent thank you's for several minutes while he held her hand and gazed steadily at her flushed face. Dennis was equally gracious to other fans who interrupted; he seemed to want to be the exemplary rock and roller. But he finally said to no one in particular, "That policeman isn't doing his job. Find someone who will." We weren't interrupted again--and we noticed as we left that there...
...resplendently gowned and crowned Queen Elizabeth last week opened the second Parliament of Harold Wilson's Labor government with a cool, clear reading of the "gracious speech" that traditionally limns the government's legislative hopes for a new session. The speech, prepared by Wilson, was a seven-minute catalogue of proposed measures from health to housing but was mainly notable for what it left out: any mention of the nationalization of Britain's steel industry...
...unholy triangle, Rita Tushingham deserts her waif roles to play a strident Teddy girl, sexwise and pound-foolish. Partly because housewifery sounds easier than getting a job, she marries a boyish motorcycle enthusiast, Colin Campbell. Their formal wedding, with cyclists revving up outside the church, is a travesty of gracious living. And Director Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File) weaves lively, sharp-eyed observation into a rowdy reception followed by the couple's honeymoon at a dreary resort...
...Gracious, lively and charming, said the reviewers in 1931 when the brother-and-sister act last went on in Broadway's The Band Wagon. Then the girl went off to get married, but Fred Astaire got along on his own. Now, 34 years later, at the biennial Philharmonic Ball in Rochester's Eastman mansion, Fred, 66, accepted the George Eastman House Award, then twinkled with Sister Adele Astaire Douglass, 67, through some of the old steps from Funny Face and Lady Be Good...
...coming of the Pope to New York City [Oct. 15] was a "lifter-upper" for all of us. Men of every religious viewpoint were moved by his devout piety, his warmhearted charity and his gracious humility. The faithful have been reassured that God is not dead-that he has not left himself without witness...