Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come a companion feature, paradoxical in its implications--the idea that the dismal period of the Twenties, roaring boom and tragic bust, will be repeated. Fritz Sternberg not only believes that the future will follow the same cycle, but that this time the depression will provide the coup de grace of the whole capitalist world. A socialist of the German stripe, non-Communist, but more in sympathy with their viewpoint and efforts than with those of the "reactionary capitalists," it is not difficult to pick out the haven he would seek in the storm. "The Coming Crisis" points...
...Manhattan's plushier galleries last week, the brown-velvet hush was deeper than usual, and the corners darker. In a crisscross of spotlights, beings of stone and bronze bubbled, writhed, ballooned, embraced-or just flumped-with heavy grace upon their pedestals...
...months, Episcopal churchmen of New York's rich, 100,000-communicant diocese have prayed and politicked over the successor to Bishop William T. Manning, who retired last December. No candidate seemed to have quite the shade of Episcopal grace to please both high and low churchmen...
...Died. Grace Moore, 45, bubbling, blonde hillbilly girl (selfstyled) who became one of the Metropolitan Opera's first-string divas (Mimi, Tosca), took Hollywood in stride (One Night of Love), toured operatic and concert stages the world over; in a plane crash; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...language (Spanish, with English titles). Its subject, the Spanish Civil War, has always aroused in the U.S. too little general interest or too much special controversy. It is Leftist, as well as antiFascist, and it was acted by nonprofessionals. It lacks the sex, the sensationalism and the conventional narrative grace of an otherwise comparable, fine film, Open City. Even movie highbrows may be dismayed by its jagged, fiercely uningratiating style...