Word: graciousness
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Teaching fellows unquestionably deserve a better deal from the University and probably need an outside prop to obtain it in the form of more pay for less work, for the Corporation has an over riding bargaining advantage as the greater of degrees. The gracious and insulting argumentum ad bominom which is contained in the report of the Overseers' Committee and the undesirability of the "senior Faculty person" whom the Committee seeks to set over them, decract from the attractiveness of its later recommendations...
...made him seem cold. Despite five years as President Roosevelt's Chief of Staff, Marshall politely rebuffed F.D.R.'s attempts to be amiable, visited Hyde Park for the first time to attend Roosevelt's funeral. Even his kindness and humor were touched with irony. After a gracious hospital visit to the daughter of a friend, he wrote: "I round your company of fish, turtles and guppies quite fascinating-much more attractive than the average group I meet socially...
Judaism's Response. If Bea's chapter makes a gracious bow to the Jews, what should be the Jewish response? That question came under painful scrutiny last week in Chicago at the Biennial General Assembly meeting of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism in the Western Hemisphere. U.A.H.C. President Maurice Eisendrath seemed to offer an ecumenical balm of his own. "Interreligious understanding is not a one-way street," he said. "What about our Jewish attitudes toward Christendom, toward Jesus especially?" Eisendrath called for a reassessment of Christ's role...
...twentieth-century American funeral rite has grown up--or rather has been built up step by step--to justify the peculiar customs surrounding the disposal of our dead... Gradually, almost imperceptibly, over the years the funeral men have constructed their own grotesque cloud-cuckooland where the trappings of Gracious Living are transformed, as in a nightmare, into the trappings of Gracious Dying... The emphasis is one the same desirable qualities that we have all been schooled to look for in our daily search for excellence: comfort, durability, beauty, craftsmanship." From THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH...
Before Maureen can slip away with Daughter Stefanie Powers to strike a blow for gracious living, McLintock takes Patrick on as a ranch hand. The youngsters' romance blooms as soon as Stefanie disposes of her Harvard-educated suitor. Out in Marlboro country before the turn of the century, Harvardmen don't amount to much-they are apt to sing and dance and run off at the mouth. "He says anyone who wants to sell at a profit is reactionary-that's me!" Wayne growls...