Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Does the Administration hope to lure these men of social grace by the continued presence of Radcliffe women in class? Co-education, started as a wartime measure necessitated by teacher shortages, and cloaked under the title of "joint instruction", seems to be here to stay. Thus, for better or worse, the Administration discards a tradition of three centuries...
Frederick Randolph Grace...
...French Princess (Renee Asherson) has the backward-bending grace of a medieval statuette of the Virgin. Her reedy, birdlike exchange of French-English with her equally delightful duenna, Alice (Ivy St. Helier), is a vaudeville act exquisitely paced and played beyond anything that Shakespeare can have imagined. Her closing scene with Henry-balanced about equally between Olivier's extraordinarily deft delivery of his lines and her extraordinary deft pantomimic -pointing of them -is a charming love scene...
...Church . . . tends too uncritically to celebrate [its order, theology and liturgy] as a means of grace without understanding the perils of corruption in all of them...
...America First. But this year the Western Hemisphere will still be the easiest place to get to. Most ship lines now have thousands on their waiting lists. By fall, however, three liners of the Moore-McCormack "Good Neighbor" Fleet would be back on South American runs. And the Grace Line, which will launch the fifth of nine new 52-passenger "Santas" this week, would have regular runs to South America by fall...