Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives and may involve our very lives; and these events are occurring persistently with increasing omen, in what may be called our presence." In this situation, what is the poet's role? To cherish imagination not as escape from reality but as "the necessary angel" by whose shaping grace man's need to make sense of reality is fulfilled. Nobility must be expressed, wrote Wallace Stevens, because of a violence from within "that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality...
...Catch a Thief (Paramount). Grace Kelly and Cary Grant are sitting in a a runabout at a secluded spot high above the Technicolored Riviera. Radiant Grace turns to Gary, says: "Do you want a breast or a leg?" Gary locks eyeballs with Grace and after a moment replies...
...leave the choice to you." So Grace gives Gary a piece of fried chicken. This is the sort of meal Director Alfred (Rear Window) Hitchcock cooked up for his troupe in the south of France last year. Its a little overdone, but it's still fried chicken- or maybe even just a lark. Those ingenious instants of terror for which Hitchcock is so well known are missing. But there remains the familiar Hitchcock pace and wit, the easy salability of such stars as Kelly and Grant, solid supporting performances by Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams, and lingering views...
This week the Modern announced that six canvases in the show will permanently-grace, its cool halls. Cézanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat (donated by David Rockefeller) helps the Modern correct what it considers the "weakness" of its late 19th century collection. Cézanne's canvases are currently thought to be a sort of touchstone of modern art-he is the idolized grandfather whose very presence lends authority to the struggles of his successors-and the Boy is an excellent example "of his pioneering portraiture...
Relatives salted the wounds. On May 9, 1885, to tearful curtain calls of "Ned!" "Tony!' "More! More!", and despite the peacemaking efforts of New York's Mayor William R. Grace, the partners broke...