Word: graciousness
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...tour of the Forbidden City. That afternoon, they resumed talks with Chou in the Great Hall of the People in Peking. The second session lasted as long as the first: about eight hours. In the dramatic settings for the talks, said a White House official, the Chinese were "enormously gracious and polite. On the human level, we were treated extraordinarily well. The mood of the session was precise and businesslike. There was no rhetoric on either side. We spoke frankly, directly and I believe usefully. It was not a conversation in which either side was trying to hold the other...
Ideally in the Houses, "historical truth, scientific discovery, mathematical deduction, cosmic theory, medical research, sociological and economic revolution and the gracious humanities appear at the breakfast table as vital and important as the citizen's daily dose of crime and disappointment."-David McCord, quoted in Information about Radclife...
...generally doubted. Scientific discovery is Progress, while mathematical deduction is Poetry, neither category being fitting for anybody's breakfast table. About cosmic theory you shouldn't ask. Medical research is probably a Good Thing, although Michael Crichton is not. To s. and e, revolution, of course, right on. The gracious humanities are My Field at Harvard, and as such inseparable from my daily dose of disappointment. Crime is a confusing issue...
...last thing we need is another undergraduate holding forth with the truth. Instead, however miraculously, in Me and My Friends, We No Longer Profess Any Graces, Rosen chooses to speak only for himself. The result is-despite the 'umble posturing of its title-a most graceful, and often even gracious, little book...
Appropriately the ruling upheld one of the most impressive members of the Southern federal judiciary. James Bryan McMillan, 54, looks and is the very model of a gracious Southern intellect. A North Carolina farmer's son, he was class of '40 at Harvard Law School, returned to his home state to set up a busy general-litigation practice, and in 1968 became one of Lyndon Johnson's last judicial appointees. Within a year, his duties forced him to confront the desegregating of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County school district. After studying the facts, Judge McMillan decided...