Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earthy and gracious, Sadat finds the Europeans too cold and sophisticated, and much prefers Americans because of their egalitarian ways. "I like the way Americans put their feet up on the desk," he says. Sadat is a sensitive man who for years felt that Westerners disliked Arabs because of their dark skin. Says a member of the Egyptian Parliament: "Sadat has few fanaticisms. He's not against Jews, or against women. Maybe it's because of his own dark skin...
...long illness. In order to prepare low-cholesterol foods that would not tax his damaged heart, he studied Chinese and Italian cuisine. But he soon found other reasons to cook. "At this point in my life," he says, "I would rather give than take. I find cooking a very gracious, warm and nurturing kind of thing to offer people...
Amid the Bruin carnage, with Harvard leading 66-32, Coach Bill McCurdy was jokingly asked if Doug Terry, the Brown coach, had been gracious enough to deliver his concession. "Well, he'd be a madman if he didn't," McCurdy exclaimed, pointing out that the score required only three more points for the Crimson to clinch the meet...
...group cannot fully participate in the genteel rituals of late-evening milk and crackers or "gracious living" (drinking sherry by candlelight in hostess gowns) without satirically mocking them. Yet they sense a disquieting gap between themselves and a catatonic freshman (Anna M. Levine) who announces that she plans to make a film about the linguistic philosopher Wittgenstein...
...woman, she is notably grudging to the man who got her to Buckingham Palace-Hercule Poirot. There is little about him in the book, and what she does write is rilled with ennui and regret that she did not make him younger, handsomer, more dashing. Finally, however, she is gracious. "As life goes on, it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented," she writes. "Presumably you have learned literary humility. If I could write like Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark or Graham Greene, I should jump to high heaven with delight, but I know that...