Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VERDI: DON CARLO (London; 4 LPs). The usual cuts have been restored and all five acts are here, sung by an assemblage of stars: Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Grace Bumbry. Their voices often outshine their characterizations (though Bumbry is good as Eboli and Ghiaurov as Philip), and the solos are stronger than the ensembles. Conductor Georg Solti generally keeps rein on the sprawling tragedy, which unfolds with dark grandeur and erupts with fiery excitement in the auto da fe in the great Spanish square...
...lights in Radcliffe Library had the bad grace to go out at about 7:30 p.m. last night. So they closed the place. Which produced peculiar results...
...GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. The novel romps with rare grace and good humor through the tangled woods of adolescence, first love and new manhood as a North Carolina farm boy hunts for his lost brother and a wandering python...
...strawberries, black currants and hairy gooseberries, my blue eyes deepened by the blurred and dewy greenery all around me, my pride swelling at being awake while all the other children were asleep. At that hour I first became aware of my own self and, in an inexpressible state of grace, felt one with the first bird that stirred and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round...
...Blake's original proposal, made at Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike's Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, was for a union of his own United Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ. Since then, the Disciples of Christ, the Evangelical United Brethren, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Southern Presbyterians have become full partners in the Consultation...