Word: graciousness
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...house similar conditions of repeated interaction with a small number of people produce similar conventions of formal blindness. Indeed at times members seem to behave as if they lived alone in the building in a state of gracious spaciousness. I am convinced that the knack of ignoring one's fellow man is a useful trait in an urban environment, one with which Americans have a good deal of trouble. Americans are always wanting to relate to everyone. How else can we explain the incredible hostility created by the appearance of long hair styles back in the sixties? In Europe...
While the district is all white, it is not the whiter shade of pale reflected in the gracious homes of Shaker Heights. The 20th's whiteness is tinged with the dirty grey of Cleveland's heavily industrialized flats; the Cuyahoga River, which cuts across the district, caught on fire several years ago because it was so heavily polluted with industrial waste. The population of this lower-middle-class urban stretch is predominantly of eastern European ancestry--Polish, German, Czech, Hungarian, plus some Irish and Italians--and roughly 75 per cent Catholic...
During his four days in Peking, Nixon met with Acting Premier Hua four times for a total of ten hours. He had an hour and 40 minute audience with Chairman Mao, finding him "alert, in good humor, and gracious...
...will announce her appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Britain this week, plainly agrees. Those who knew her as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1972 or as a Cabinet-rank White House counselor during the Nixon Administration were equally extravagant in their notices. At once tough, gracious and articulate, Mrs. Armstrong is one of Ford's more distinguished appointments. The only shadow of criticism is that she doggedly defended Richard Nixon until almost the last bloody moment of Watergate...
...ACHIEVING FAME. I wanted it very much, but when I started playing leading parts in London, I wasn't popular at first. I swore to myself, "When I am popular I shall be so gracious to everybody. I will sit at the steps of the stage door saying, 'My people, how I love you. There are only 300 here? I can sign all the autographs. Some of you go off and have a drink, and then come back.' " But when I became popular, I wasn't like that at all. I'd take one horrified...