Word: graciousness
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...brightest find of Spartakiad, both in ability and personality, was Carl Lewis, just turned 18. In only his third competition outside high school meets, the gracious, unassuming Willingboro, N.J., athlete won a gold medal for his leg in the 800-meter relay and a bronze in his specialty, the long jump. Lewis was disappointed with third place in the long jump, but Stan Vinson, 27, who won gold medals in the 400-meter dash and 1,600-meter relay, looked ahead: "I think he'll jump 29 ft. before he's 20 the way he's going...
...electric atmosphere is both friendly and engrossing at once. But the experience is a foreign one for the most--the spectacle of that painted statue parading down Salem St. with hundreds of howling citizens begging to pin whatever they can afford onto its breast is both repelling and gracious. In America, money seems to accomplish more than prayer, and the religious festival originated in its current form at the turn of the century, when Little Italies sprawled across cities like Boston and New York, full of poor but faithful immigrants...
Sidey's gleanings from what he describes as "a very gracious kind of briefing" with a "philosophical" President, supplements the reporting of correspondents around the country who, to piece together the elusive story of the summit, had spent the week corralling the 134 people summoned by Carter. Washington Energy Correspondent Richard Hornik spoke to economic and energy experts who had participated in the meetings, while Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil managed to track down nearly 20 Congressmen and Senators who had made the trip. Said White House Correspondent Chris Ogden, who raced to buttonhole civic leaders and senior White House...
...shortly thereafter, one of Walter Reuther's right-hand men. When Reuther died in 1970, Fraser competed closely with Leonard Woodcock for the presidency. Woodcock won a narrow majority in the U.A.W. vote board; Fraser withdrew and urged that the election be made unanimous. That gracious gesture perhaps ensured his own election to the $59,000 post in 1977, when Woodcock reached the mandatory retirement...
There must be something good to say. Let us say yea for the way Theoni V. Aldredge has turned back the decades with the gracious flow of her costumes. And a resounding yea for David Mitchell's set, with its misty evocation of San Francisco and the ability to structure a home that looks lived in. But, alas, a frame doth not a picture make...