Word: graciousness
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...supporting cast saves the show. Arrayed as Alceste's targets of misanthropy, these liars and flatterers become likable. Philip Corbett is superb as Philante, the charming, gracious and witty friend whom Alceste ignores. Corbett manages Moliere's stilted verse as if it were his own. He is properly expressive when suffering Alceste's bombast...
Some journalists who cover TV consider Paley, 77, a particularly elusive subject, but Clarke discovered the chairman of CBS to be gracious and cooperative. Their 1½-hour meeting took place in Paley's office, a "wonderfully opulent but understated room," according to the TIME visitor, with paintings by Picasso and Rouault and a chemin defer table from Paris now used as a desk and, for this occasion, a tape recorder. "I asked Paley if he minded if I used my tape recorder," says Clarke. " 'No,' he replied, 'as long as you don't mind...
...Raiffa approves of only two: one an interview in last week's Harvard Gazette, and the other a Globe story by Charles L. Whipple. "The Whipple article pointed up errors in the Journal article and said the press, in this case, was wrong," said Raiffa. "That's a very gracious step to take...
...briefly in the Chicago bureau before arriving in Iran for temporary duty earlier this year. At one point he was threatened by knife-wielding youths but was helped by an Iranian woman. "An hour later," recalls Jackson, "I was sipping tea and peeling a tangerine, the guest of a gracious Iranian family who wanted to tell me their hopes for the future of their country." Such a sequence of events is illogical, but logic cannot be expected when you are covering a revolution...
...With her gracious comments, warm smile, and steel-rimmed glasses slipping down her nose, Cho Lin seemed to reconfirm an old Chinese saying that she quoted: "We become old acquaintances at first sight...