Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than ten years in power, the 61-year-old President of Pakistan last week bowed to his conscience -and his critics-by declaring that he would step down at the end of his term next year. It was the decision of a concerned man, executed with the dignity and grace of the lifelong soldier that Ayub Khan is. Yet once again it underscored-in a world in which the people increasingly take to the streets-the fragility and vulnerability of all but the very strongest authority...
This is the extent of Laing's social critique. Laing offers no political solution. He does not wish to grace the social structuring and modes of experience by treating them with the dignity of real objects. The solution lies in experience not politics. The cend politics, those which remove the individual from the alienating process of controlling and being controlled by others. Laing calls for tolerance and exploration of modes of experience other than egoic in which the world and the self are experienced "in terms of a consistent identity, a me-here over against you-there, within a framework...
...more golden Greeks, Aristotle Onassis (more than 100 ships) or Stavros Niarchos (65). Still, it will do what few of its American rivals have done in recent years: turn a sizable profit. Last year Skouras' Prudential Lines earned an estimated $1.5 million on revenues of $14 million; Grace earned a little more than $3,000,-000 on revenues of $100 million...
...Making. The Broadway book had the grace to mock itself. In the end Charity was blessed by a good fairy -who turned out to be a costumed pitch woman plugging a CBS-TV show. Peter Stone's hollow adaptation takes itself seriously. Charity, maundering through Central Park, converses with a bunch of flower children who teach her the power of Love...
Director Terence Young brings a stuffy, stilted style to the proceedings that's always good for a laugh between the lines. The players miraculously managed to keep straight faces throughout, although Miss Deneuve carries this to excess by freezing into an astonishing replica of Grace Kelly at her most glacial. As Omar moans appropriately, "I have no authority. I'm just the puppet prince." It shows...