Word: grace
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 1 would encourage last-minute parties, especially since March 31 is a Saturday. State Rep. William G. Robinson said if the measure had taken effect on April Fool's Day, "the legislature and governor would have been a damn laughing stock." He recommended allowing the usual 90-day grace period because students would be out of school when the law goes into effect and therefore less likely to protest...
...church shout is a flaming tenor solo by Ricky Ford, the last in a long line of great saxophonists who discovered themselves in Mingus's Jazz Workshops. In "Caroline 'Keki' Mingus," a ballad, altoist Lee Konitz lovingly introduces a theme which is then caressed by the ensemble with a grace that can only recall Mingus's one-time collaborator, Duke Ellington...
...seems clear that Flannery would have made her mark as a writer no matter where and how she lived her grownup years. She was born a Southerner and a Roman Catholic, and the vision that animated all her fiction came early: the infusion of divine grace into the lives of rustic, often grotesque characters who either do not recognize or cannot handle it. This plus talent and true grit guaranteed her status as an original. But the lupus made her a prodigious writer of letters as well. "Mail is very eventful to me," she wrote one friend shortly after returning...
...opposition was as well organized as the supporters, and far more boisterous. Some 2,000 chanting, hymn-singing demonstrators, many of them bused into Raleigh by a group of fundamentalist churches, besieged wavering legislators. The anti-ERA crowd filled the air with choruses of Amazing Grace! and waved placards declaring ERA the PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE. Former U.S. Senator Sam Ervin Jr. added his country-lawyer counsel against the amendment. Said Ervin: "ERA would nullify any laws that make any distinction between men and women. When the good Lord created the earth, he didn't have the advice...
...optimistic realism of Not at the Palace helps Joe Masiell accomplish the near-impossible--he holds an audience's attention, alone, for some two and one-half hours. As a stage presence he has many gifts: a well-controlled and expressive singing voice, grace as a dancer, and the knack of an accomplished professional. He knows when to smile, when to chat with the audience, when to casually sling his jacket over his shoulder--and all this helps. But above all, he knows how to make you feel he actually believes his message; perhaps, and this would be a rarity...