Word: graciousness
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...KENNETH PARRATT Austin,Texas Gracious Georgians...
...theoretically one of the most powerful in Washington, but its actual clout has varied widely with the man filling it. McCracken, on leave from the University of Michigan, was one of its less mighty occupants. Gracious and courtly, he once asserted: "I'm a professor, not a politician." No infighter, he was elbowed aside in policymaking by Budget Boss George Shultz. When Treasury Secretary John Connally replaced Shultz as top economic-policy man, McCracken rode Connally's coattails within the Government by arguing -well before Stein-for an incomes policy. Publicly, however, McCracken became known for doggedly insisting...
Tormented Faces. Richard Nixon gave Mrs. Gandhi a gracious welcome on the South Lawn of the White House. It was a glorious autumn day in Washington, with the flags snapping in the wind and monuments gleaming in the sunshine. Thirteen silver trumpets sounded a fanfare from the White House portico. Then Mrs. Gandhi, regal in a brown sari and cashmere cape, reviewed the troops with the President...
...competitive manner of a coach. Sometimes he sounds perilously similar to Pat O'Brien asking the team to win one for the Gipper. "I like competition," he says. "Free enterprise is competition in goddam near its purest form. I hate to lose-but I'm a gracious winner...
...Agnew abroad is dignified, correct and, above all, distant, the gracious teatime and dinner companion of potentates and princes, ministers and maharajahs. Tall and tanned, he is meticulous to the point of having every last hair in place, even after stepping out of a minor gale. He has done his homework. In private talks and ceremonial functions, Agnew, from all available evidence, has performed flawlessly. Perhaps too flawlessly...