Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most Americans, the thought of European roulette conjures up visions of King Farouk squandering an Egyptian fortune at Deauville, James Bond gallantly winning one for a lissome blonde at Casino Royale, or Princess Grace and Ari Onassis presiding over the glittering wheels of Monte Carlo. Titillating, perhaps, but a trifle dated. The true archetype of European gambling today is the sprawling mustard-yellow casino at sleepy Bad Neuenahr on the Ahr River in West Germany. There, few of the blondes among the intense, studious crowds at the tables last week were under 50 years...
...church confesses its faith when it bears a present witness to God's grace in Jesus Christ," says the preface to the new creed. Present witness demands strong affirmation that, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, and that God is in the church to complete this work of reconciliation. The confession does not attempt to redefine such traditional doctrines as the Trinity, but it does give a contemporary statement of what the church believes about Jesus of Nazareth (in him, "true humanity was realized once for all"), Christ as savior and judge...
...Faculty in the past has been dismayingly dust-coverish. But this year the little, posed picture and short inconsequential recital of facts has given way to more sophisticated profiles, both pictorially and substantively. Most writers have adopted the interview transcript technique with varying degrees of success in grace and content. But this method usually seems artifical and makes the man unreal, since it often discusses him in a vacuum. Somehow a teacher doesn't seem truly intelligent or particularly worth knowing until the author can maintain an objective tone and a critical stance. Of fifteen profiles, only three-Andrew Weil...
...repertory ranges from the raw brutality and passion in Talley Beatty's classic jazz ballet, The Road of the Phoebe Snow, to the chillingly abstract study of loneliness in Anna Sokolow's Rooms. Ailey's own Roots of the Blues and Revelations are danced with savage grace and élan. Roots traces the evolution of the blues from the barrel houses of New Orleans to the speakeasy era; Revelations, drawing on Negro spirituals, evokes the hope and despair of a beleaguered people...
Notably successful in straightening out the tangled prose of the Pauline Epistles, the Confraternity translation occasionally falters into leaden phrasing in the Gospels. The parable of the sower and the seed (Matthew 13:24-30) begins with all the grace of an Agriculture Department bulletin: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to the situation of a farmer who sowed good seed in his field...