Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Today at Harvard there are numerous groups engaged in subverting the institutions and customs which have made Harvard, in the past, a unique institution in which the student was able to lead a gracious (if he wished) and independent life, free from the odious customs of the gum-chewing public. One of the most disadvantageous changes at Harvard has been the gradual and insidious insertion of Radcliffe into the Harvard scene. It is becoming more evident every day that Harvard will soon be no more than another co-ed school, saturated with spurious and degrading self-identification with the symbols...
Spring, always as much mockery as miracle, mocked 1950's anxieties with an especially gracious approach in some of the lands where anxiety was tightest...
...State Department press corps, but Congressmen do not warm to his cultivated manner, his balanced phrases, his seemingly studied elegance. The Congressmen could probably accept all of that if they were not put off by what they regard as his aloof manner. In his appearances before Congress, he is gracious, urbane and polite-perhaps over-polite. But his explanations of foreign programs often carry a trace of faint weariness that explanations should be needed. Worse, even staunch Democrats were dismayed by his espousal of Alger Hiss; and his explanation of what he regarded as the moral niceties of the question...
Before he did, he might well have shot an apprehensive glance at his fellow travelers. Not long ago, on this same bus, a large woman had sat down next to him, had peered at him, peered again, and exclaimed: "Gracious me, aren't you Mr. T. S. Eliot?" Aghast, he had looked up, admitted his identity, and at the next stop he had fled down the narrow stairs, hurried to the nearest tube station and gone underground...
Limited to seven meals over a two-week stretch in 1949, the freshmen will be able to obtain passes all next month for a total of 14 inter-House priviliges. For most of the first-year men, these brief excursions into upper class gracious living furnish almost the only experience on which to base applications for admission to the Houses later in the year...