Word: graciousness
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...Also Rises (TIME, Sept. 2). Hemingway was quoted in the London Sunday Dispatch as saying: "I saw Darryl Zanuck's splashy Cook's tour of Europe's lost-generation bistros, bull fights and more bistros. It's all pretty disappointing, and that's being gracious. You're meant to be in Spain and all you see walking around are nothing but Mexicans. Pretty silly." Taking a firm stand on his footage, Producer Zanuck snapped: "A lousy thing to say. He doesn't have the right to destroy publicly something he's been...
...Tedesco's victory saved one of Bridgeport's pride, the gracious old Wheeler mansion, regard by architects as one of the finest American examples of Gothic revival (TIME, Oct. 21), McLevy had ordered it torn down to make way for a new city hall, but Winner Tedesco was all for its preservation...
...Person of the Emperor. "This is the day," the little Emperor told his subjects soon afterward, "of fulfillment of the gracious pledge so often reiterated by us, that our beloved people are to share in the responsibility of the public affairs of our government." Facing him in the parliamentary chamber were 210 representatives of the people, victors in the first election ever held in Ethiopia's 3,000-year history of autocratic rule...
...stay there, Lorenz was given a room to himself in the five-room apartment. Usally that room served as living-dining room for the family. The American often left his door open to encourage the rest of the family to share the room with him. But his over-gracious hosts simply shut the door again...
...chain-smoked cigarettes, embraced old Resistance buddies and held gracious court for Paris literati at his publisher's reception, Albert Camus admitted generously that he thought the award should have gone to André Malraux, "my early mentor." Even as he chatted, he inadvertently revealed the major qualities that won him the award−an unflagging humanism coupled with an unremitting skepticism. Pressed to make "one wish in the name of humanity," Camus unhesitatingly answered, "Freedom." Asked about his enemies, he replied with a shrewd Gallic twinkle: "One has to know how to make people forgive success...