Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against a Closed Shop. The son of a bullfighter, Manolete had been born into that world of stylized drama, of vanity, vulgar pomp and sublime grace. He was as great as Belmonte, who dominated the "golden age" of the '20s. Manolete followed the restrained, classical tradition of Belmonte, but he worked even closer to the bulls, spinning them around him, horns a fraction of an inch away. Manolete could do this without bravado, relaxed, dignified, almost pensive...
Dogs Preferred. Most of the quarrels between Mr. & Mrs. America are prompted by 1) money, 2) jealousy, and 3) children -in that order. Seven out of ten U.S. adults believe in spanking their offspring. Less than a third of U.S. families say grace at meals. Seven out of ten prefer a dog to a cat as a family pet and only one in 20 keeps a canary. Almost no parents want their sons to go into politics; they are certain that a political career leads to graft and crookedness...
...Says she: "My body is built for heavy stomping, powerful dignity." She usually dances to an accompaniment of pulsing drums. In one of her new works, Santo, a psychological study of the clash of Voodooism and Christianity in Cuba, fascinated students watched an exhibition of primitive, pantherlike power and grace. In The Shouters of Sobo, a work based on the traditions of African stonecutters, students got a lesson in gripping, concentrated intensity. With muscled shoulders hunched over bended knees, her powerful arms pounding, her whole body dynamically dramatic, everything about her was directed downward with terrible force...
...Reverend Morris F. Arnold, rector of Grace Church, Medford, delivered the invocation...
Sponsored by the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee, the commemoration will begin with a short invocation by the Reverend Morris F. Arnold, rector of Grace Church, Medford...