Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Treasure Fund. Draped regally in a gold brocade gown, her hair piled high in a bun, Lili Kraus last week began the first lap of her Mozart marathon. In the opening Concerto No. 4, composed when Mozart was eleven, she unfolded the beguilingly simple melodies with a rippling grace and ease; in No. 9 she engaged the Mozart Chamber Orchestra in a lighthearted dialogue that rang with all the gusto of a back-porch gossip fest. And her reading of the passionate No. 20, the most popular of Mozart's piano works, was clean refinement and intense drama...
Yoga & Oatmeal. It was this blossoming of inner faith, she says, that irresistibly drew her to "the divine serenity of Mozart, which is so close to the bosom of God. I discovered the purity and chastity of his way, the seductive grace, the incredible sweetness." The hardest part, she explains, was taming her "uncivilized Hungarian temperament, cutting back all passion, all effusiveness, all exaggeration, which does not go well with Mozart." Steeped in religious philosophy, she is a radiant, darkly handsome woman who fortifies her self with yoga exercises learned from Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's guru in India...
Toll for the Big. The loss is affecting the strategies of big companies. More than 95 mergers have been called off this year, including Consolidated Food and United Artists; Litton Industries and Diebold, Inc.; W. R. Grace and Fanny Farmer. Mergers are usually consummated by stock swaps, and when shares fall, the deal loses its allure. The mutual funds have become so bearish that last week they dumped some stock in large blocs. They were getting rid of electronics stocks and shares of machine-tool companies and others likely to be damaged by repeal of the 7% investment-tax credit...
...Eble's view, the purpose of higher education should be to produce a lifetime "sense of style" involving "mastery over all one does, with simplicity, harmony and grace." At the same time, it should develop a "sense of worth" based largely on "passionately held beliefs and passionately felt responses to experience." Not at all incidentally, good schooling should also provide "an escape from boredom" and "lead us to laugh in the face of heaven or hell. Education should teach us to play the wise fool rather than turn us into the solemn...
...afficianado's knowledge of surfing hazards and an appreciation of the expert's skill and grace. His narration proceeds smoothly; he intersperses cracks about particularly bad wipeouts with wise asides about air and water temperatures, the incline of the continental shelves, and the price of gas in Ghana...