Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standees. Things got under way when beefy Wally Fowler, a bushy-browed master of ceremonies from Possum Trot, Ga., asked everybody to "turn left, then turn right and shake hands; I want you to be good neighbors." Then he led the crowd in Love Lifted Me and Amazing Grace. After a short talk about the evils of materialism and intellectual confusion, he led another hymn, shouting between the lines: "Don't you just love this fellowship together...
...eminently logical recommendation was strongly resisted by the fraternities, which claimed that their finances would suffer if they did not acquire new members early in the year. But the Board of Trustees approved the recommendation at a meeting last June and the fraternities accepted the decision with reasonable good grace, especially after the Trustee adopted a resolution which read in part...
...gorgeous-looking, immensely skillful actresses," surprised everyone when her warm singing and touching performance equaled her looks. In her second opera, a sunny revival of Cherubim's The Portuguese Inn, the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein called her "the very incarnation of youthful feminine grace and vivacity." Even before she had appeared in her other roles (in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Massenet's Manon), the San Francisco Opera decided to invite her back next season...
...junta consists of Premier Georgy Malenkov ("full of old-fashioned grace"), Nikita Khrushchev ("hail fellow well met"), Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov ("quiet, patient and reasonable"), Lazar Kaganovich ("likes his liquor"), N. A. Bulganin ("handsome and witty"), A. I. Mikoyan ("probably the sharpest and cleverest of all"). All are about the same height (5 ft. 4 in.), and all have the common secondary goal of convincing their own people and the West that the "Stalin terror" is over. But Salisbury emphasizes that the change is only on the surface; their primary goal remains the same: worldwide Communist dictatorship...
Rear Window. Hot and cold flashes of kissing and killing, as Alfred Hitchcock lets Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and the customer get the eavesdrop on a murderer (TIME...