1.   In his gracious Atlanta home, he speaks in the sweetly penetrating voice of his soul classics, but softer now, tailing away at the ends of sentences.

2.   On the outside, the Brestler house looks like any number of gracious Eastside homes for a growing family with three children.

3.   Past Kew, the river opens up into lush countryside, passing cottages and gracious homes.

4.   The village now is economically diverse, with large gracious homes in the verdant Philipse Manor section and plain multifamily housing downtown.

5.   They used black laborers to build wide avenues and painted gracious colonial homes in pinks and pastels.

6.   Outwardly, this neighborhood of gracious homes is not much different than on any hot summer day.