Word: graciousness
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...Yorker was the gracious home to John Cheever and S.J. Perelman and A.J. Liebling and Charles Addams, And though the magazine was supposed to be edited for a "little old lady in Dubuque," it was more typically the favorite reading and kindling material for a commuting crowd of Manhattan monsieurs and their homemaking Westchester maddams. But it also came to a home in the Carpenter Woods section of Philadelphia, To a neighborhood full of kids, where you'd play ball on the street and come home when your mom would yellphia. I was one of those kids, with the average...
...work hasn't changed; it's I who am different. I'm older, much older, my joints much stifferent. The Nash I grew out of, I've grown into again. He seems much the wisest of the funny old men: Not grouchy but gracious, not silly - sagacious, Not restless but patious in all the right placious, Indulgent observer of each human foible, Like the lady whose birthday is hardly enjoible...
...weekends. There are no phones, so visitors must simply turn up. Perched on a rise in East Timor's central highlands, a four-hour drive north of Dili, the hotel is surrounded on all sides by a jagged mountain range that resembles the Swiss Alps without the altitude. A gracious establishment with wide, marble verandas, luxurious rooms, cultivated rose gardens and crisp, clean air, the hotel was once the favored retreat for Portuguese colonials living in Dili, though it quickly fell into disrepair under the Indonesians, who considered its 360 views of the surrounding countryside perfect for an army observation...
...baby, ya drive me crazy," the chugging bass figure is briefly counterpointed by a cute hearts-and-flowers, silent-movie piano flourish, as if sentiment not sex were the theme of the story - he's lying with his right hand, telling the truth with his left. A last "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire!", a final four-note blast, and it's over...
...exiled Jerry Lee's music, and Sun Records issued his next single, "Lewis Boogie," as the B side of a derisive novelty number called "The Return of Jerry Lee," which intercut snippets of his records with a reporter's mock-interrogation. "What did Queen Elizabeth say about you?" "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire...