Word: graciousness
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...Champ: Why is Hillary Standing by Her Man?" This was the theme of a committee discussion held at the Institute of Politics (IOP), audaciously termed a debate by the Harvard Political Union (News, Feb. 4). Amid the worn jokes and vacuous slogans, several people of more noble and gracious intent than me tried bravely to provoke an intelligent discussion of the budding scandal in Washington. Sadly, they were doomed by the near-comic choice of topic...
...very serious disagreement," he said. "She was gracious enough to call me...and said...'You and I have both been beaten up pretty good,' and I said, 'Let's go out and heal...
Leslie Chamberlain came to Wilmington from St. Louis, Mo., to escape suburban sprawl and find a pretty little place where she could live a neo-Victorian fantasy as the proprietor of a gracious bed and breakfast. Nobody in Wilmington thought the ebullient, almond-eyed woman had a chance of making a B and B work; the town had never had one before, so people assumed it couldn't be done. But in 1990 Leslie and her husband Rick, a physician with good business sense, bought an ornate 1869 brick Victorian house on South Street. After six months of painting, wallpapering...
...late fifties or early sixties--this was back in '67-'68--and he was dressed in wing-tipped shoes and a tweed jacket, very Ivy. The man came into B entryway one day and knocked on our door. He proceeded to sit and talk, always "very gracious and well-spoken." Young remembers that "he insisted that he had lived in B entry and that he had been roommates with Senator Saltonstall in the Class of 1914, but Senator Saltonstall had not lived in B entry." While neither Young not Yalouris remember the name of the gentleman, they do remember that...
Though his current employment means he is no longer the J.D. Salinger of the movies, Malick can still lay claim to being their Thomas Pynchon. While allowing journalists to visit the set of The Thin Red Line (and acting the gracious host in an informal, off-the-record chat), he continues to refuse formal interviews, something he hasn't done since a 1974 chat with Women's Wear Daily. Indeed, his last recorded comment of any kind was, "Well, I, I, uh, I guess I don't want to talk about it..." when journalist David Handelman cold-called...