Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote on whether to impose a symbolic retaliation against Adams House. (Yesterday, Adams responded by issuing its own declaration of hostilities against Pforzheimer.) We are in the midst of a war, where our only refuge--or guaranteed meal, for that matter--lies in our home base or the gracious pardon of a member of an enemy camp willing to invite you into his territory...
...auction house, a sponsor of the show and the seller of $2.6 million of Saatchi's art last year, was knowingly trying to raise the value of Saatchi's collection. It then filed suit to throw the museum--one of the finest in the country--out of the gracious city-owned building that has been its home for more than 100 years. Supporters rallied to each side, and both the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Catholic League organized pickets...
...thriving community of their fellow kinsmen, the travelers were instead confronted with an all-but-dead village, ungodly weather conditions, a scarcity of food, and a longing to return to civilized society. And for those of us who returned to campus on September 10, when the College was gracious enough to open the upperclass houses, we can empathize with the British colonists of days past...
...boyish, bouncy manner with the public, or by his good looks alone, one might be reasonably churlish in putting it down to counterfeit emotion. But the more one learns of his works, the things he accomplished with his time and money--the practical good sense of them; the gracious, modest style that attended them--the more one appreciates that this was a life worth mourning. Those who feel that journalism's coverage of his death has been overdone do not understand that there is a news of feeling as well as fact; and the feeling for Kennedy has come from...
When she married Fairbanks in 1920, the two reigned as Hollywood's king and queen in their legendary home, Pickfair. He was the athletic bon vivant, she the gracious princess. But the poetic silent picture was replaced by the prosaic talkie, and Pickford was finally too old for her girlish grit to be convincing. She made her last film in 1933 at 40, and within a few years Jack, Lottie and Doug were dead. Bereft, she quietly drank herself to oblivion, pickled in Pickfair. By her death in 1979, only a few oldsters could recall Little Mary with anything like...