Word: graciousness
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...city that Maurois was writing about is elsewhere, outside the downtown area. Kansas City has 118 miles of tree-lined parkways and gracious boulevards and 7,211 acres of public parks. Kansas Citians have a fetish for fountains; it is almost a gaucherie for a developer to erect a building without one outside. The latest is a $150,000 concrete and steel-alloy fountain in Blue Valley Park. Some of the loveliest are in the Spanish-style Country Club Plaza, an opulent shopping and residential complex; it was the nation's first shopping center when Developer J.C. Nichols built...
ROBERT LIVINGSTON KREIDLER, 39, a Cincinnati lawyer, traces his ancestry to Philip Livingston and jokes that "the Livingstons haven't done anything since." He and his wife Franny and two sons live in an old gracious residential area. He is active in sports organizations and the General Society of Colonial Wars...
...display at Greenwich's National Maritime Museum, where it is expected to attract more than 1 million visitors. Two years in the making, "1776, the British Story of the American Revolution" traces events from just before the Stamp Act was imposed, in 1764, to George Ill's gracious acceptance of credentials from John Adams, the fledgling nation's first minister to London, in 1785. Fittingly, the monarch's words on that occasion ("Let the circumstances of language, religion and blood have their natural and full effect") were tape-recorded for the show by his great-great...
Then southward, first for a stop in antebellum Charleston, where Twain insists on renting an electric boat to tour the ricefield bogs; and Savannah, Ga., with its quaint cobblestone streets and a gracious populace that calls outsiders "visitors," not "tourists." In New Orleans they stroll through the somewhat scruffy but genteel French Quarter (prostitutes will stare from their wrought-iron balconies). Again, at Twain's insistence, they pause at a Dixieland jazz joint and later dine aboard one of the Mississippi steamboats...
...silence, through 50 years shut tight to all investigative reporters. He starts asking questions and gets almost nothing but candid answers in return. Only a truly robot-like reporter comes out of that situation un-compromised, and Ungar is not a robot. His thankfulness manifests itself in overly-gracious characterizations of the low level agents who risked so much to open up to him. The eight agents whom Ungar profiles rapidly in a seven-page section are all cut out of a likeable if not loveable mode. Ungar seems especially enamoured with the younger agents--members of the "Berrigan...