Word: graciousness
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...guide. What apparently beguiled the usually conservative inspectors and editors of the guide, as it does the 100 or so daily customers at lunch and dinner, is, of course, the exquisite food that generally combines savory and authoritative flavors with lightness and delicacy. Also considered are the remarkab- ly gracious and concerned service and the flossy pink valentine of a dining room...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who has endured more criticism than any other Cabinet member, seems utterly unbowed. Gentle and gracious, he pads around his huge Pentagon office complex, believing that the U.S. is just a couple of years and a few billion dollars away from a defense structure that will equal the Soviets' and create an environment in which diplomats can work for peace free of worry about arms imbalances. His task: to stave off the forces that now would dramatically cut defense spending...
...able to take one rug, no furniture and no books or scores that predated 1946; family heirlooms had to be left behind. Forsaken too was the hard-won respect that the Soviets gave grudgingly to Jewish artists. "Jews are considered a lower echelon," notes Davidovich, a gentle, gracious woman whose expressive face and eyes faithfully mirror her emotions. "I received my title of Deserving Artist five years after friends who had won no competitions. In my career, everything, like playing in the West and teaching, happened with delays...
...producers that GMA is more relaxed and that people like that," says McGrady. Neither she nor Hartman plans any major tinkering with GMA's format. "We're not looking at Today's ratings and saying, 'Oh, good,' " Hartman admits. "But it doesn't worry me in the sense of 'Gracious, we have to hit the panic button. We've fallen apart.' We haven...
...Osage Avenue. But the mayor showed considerable political dexterity in the days following the fire, taking care to distance himself from on-site decisions while accepting full responsibility for the bombing itself. He made himself available to reporters, met with people from the fire-ravaged neighborhood, and was gracious enough not to blame subordinates. His up-front attitude seemed to pay off. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Goode's standing in public opinion polls was nearly as high as it has ever been. One poll said 71% thought the mayor had done a good or excellent job handling...