Word: graciousness
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...childishness," said Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Games. "To ask them to respect each other is not utopian, but in order to respect each other they must first know each other." For all the talk of Patriot Games, the hope is that Americans will be particularly gracious to their global guests, aware that playing host to the Games is not the same as owning them, and conscious, in a whole new way, of being part of a community larger than...
...CINEMA, Dec. 24] were, to put it gently, excessive. The closing paragraph is but one example: "Everything he did was big, when he was right, when he was wrong, when he embarrassed us, when he inspired us. That finally is why he remains a king of the world." Gracious! My guess is that Ali would get a chuckle when reading such nonsense. RICHARD HARLESS Lorton...
...When I saw this production, I regretted my wasted youth for not having devoted my entire life to the stage. It moved me to tears: some for the tragedies played out so beautifully, and the rest out of joy and gratitude that Zimmerman allowed me to experience this gracious summation of humankind in such a stirring and elemental form. MARY BETH PATTERSON Mountain View, Calif...
...GOODNESS GRACIOUS...
Teams from Brown, Dartmouth, Nebraska, Iowa, Rutgers, Boston College and MIT were in attendance, but the Crimson would not prove to be the most gracious of hosts when it came to results...