Their home was a gracious setting for introducing and encouraging young musicians.
Now you can sense something of this high life in this gracious setting.
BARRACA Tapas and paella will be the highlights in this casual spot, while its sister restaurant, MELIBEA, will feature Spanish regional food in a more gracious setting, with guest chefs.
From the flaky hot canapés served in the evening with aperitivos at the bar to the velvety sweet marrons glacé, the bittersweet chocolate-covered kikingi (little tart orange Cape gooseberries) and dessert pastries, this gracious setting provided a felicitous ending for my own last supper in Milan.
Her abundant kindness, integrity, and gracious elegance set a standard for our Society.
A QUIET residential enclave just north of busy Northern Boulevard and not far from the commercial whirl of downtown Flushing, the Broadway-Flushing neighborhood of Queens is known for large gracious houses set behind spacious front lawns, sidewalks that are shaded by a profusion of maple, oak, tulip trees and beech, and residents determined to keep their neighborhood intact.
And his drawings for his father's fascinating 1825 tableau of the Thames, a boxed set of cards Havell Sr. called "Natuorama, or Endless Transposition of Views on the Thames," could be arranged and rearranged in any order; but the near bank of the river always features cattle or a loaded barge or some other commonplace, while the far side offers a series of gracious homes set on sloping lawns.
In 1967, Shlomo Abulafia, now a retired agronomist, moved into a two-room hovel that he and his wife, Meira, have transformed beyond recognition into a gracious Arab-style home set in a charming garden.
Gracious and unpretentious, "Dave set the standard for what political reporting was in this country," said Dan Balz, a longtime Post colleague.
A ubiquitous interview guest, he was gracious and delightful on set, yukking it up with the stagehands, and segueing right into shtick after the cameras stopped rolling.
So, when my good friend, the writer Maddie Dawson, gave me a book called Writers on Writing edited by Meredith Maran, I said a gracious thank you, but set the book aside.
