Word: graciousness
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Nader's feeling for duty and constant study grew out of his family upbringing in Winsted, Conn., a gracious town of 8,000. His mother Rose used to ask friends all about films showing at the local movie house and would send her four children only to the few that had useful messages. Nightly dinner was more a course in forensics than food: it often lasted four or five hours, and everyone was expected to contribute his opinions to the topic of the evening. Nadra Nader, now 77, a Lebanese immigrant who built up a moderately prosperous restaurant business, presided...
What inspires such love and pulls people to the great cities? What indeed is a great city? It is almost easier to say what it is not. Except for its wealthy elites, great cities do not always provide easy or gracious living; lesser communities are almost always more comfortable. Juvenal could have walked peacefully in any number of attractive provincial cities. The average resident of one of Britain's planned new towns lives better than his counterpart in London. Yet London, notes Robert Ardrey, author of The Territorial Imperative, was a great city "even when the food was terrible...
...pool tables are still in the Union (though no longer free), but they are almost symbols of a gracious gentleman past than of a vibrant present. Seminar rooms and the headquarters for the freshman Debate Council are located just down the half from them. The once elegant club-rooms and guest rooms are now common rooms loaded with intellectual magazines and musical practice rooms...
...severe stucco structure, the museum is set in a gracious garden of lawns, rosebushes, palms and pines at Ardea, 25 miles south of Rome. It houses 67 bronze sculptures, 271 drawings, 36 engravings and 40 gold figurines and medallions. All were donated by Inge Schabel, Manzu's longtime companion and model, with whom he has lived since 1954 and by whom he has two children, Giulia, 6, and Mileto, 4. Manzu had given the works to her as a kind of unofficial legacy. Otherwise, at his death, they would legally have gone to his wife. The couple have long...
...inspired them or feel to be important ideals that are the breath of life to them? How many Englishmen under 25 stand to attention when the anthem is played or long for the great days of Empire? Your father's bluff common sense and your mother's gracious ordinariness are precisely the qualities needed to capture the affection of our parents. That is precisely why they seem an irrelevancy to us. It is not that we dislike them. They simply do not seem to be important...