Word: grace
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the tutelage of Carlo Fassi, the Italian who coached Dorothy Hamill and John Curry to zeniths on the ice, Tintti has gained a mastery of compulsory figures and a style and grace that have moved her very much into the international picture in Senior Ladies competition...
...spiritual energy pervading the universe. Western religion is stingy: God came to earth (so the story goes) in only one incarnation, Jesus. In the East, there were many incarnations, many teachers, many who attained nirvana. The spiritual struggle in the East is not so hopeless, with divine grace coming in the last moments of submission and despair like some celestial cavalry riding over the hill as the archangels play their bugles...
...west. Rather than personalizing the cosmic spiritual energy as God, as a being not unlike your father who demands certain things and says certain things and before whom man is totally degraded and who maybe, if you're lucky, if he feels like it on a whim, gives you grace, the East prefers to keep such psychological games out of the matter. Each person has this energy at his core, each person can reach his innermost being (and many do) and each person therefore is his own salvation on earth...
...monks at the Cowley monastery at 980 Memorial Drive, is one of the fundamental esthetic experiences of the western world. Major elements of the liturgy have been performed with little change in churches since New Testament times. The monks are professional worshippers and they perform their ancient roles with grace and impeccable timing. The priest at the altar, the candles, the incense, the mysticism, and the compelling solemnity--or their equivalents--are found in the rites of almost all religions, even the most primitive. They strike a chord deep within us, and refuse to leave us unmoved...
Politeness may be a grace note rising above some of the mudslinging in the election of 1978. In California, Texas and Illinois, to name only three, the contenders ravaged each other. But in Massachusetts, Paul Tsongas refrained from assailing Edward Brooke on his personal problems. That rare restraint may have been the margin and the way to the Senate...