Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Perignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong...
...much now as I could 40 years ago," says Jones, and it does not seem to be an idle boast. He can still do 30 fast push-ups without breathing hard, credits his energy to eight hours of good sleep a night plus "grace, grass* and gumption." The most important of these, unquestionably, is grace. Jones believes that "the chief business of the Christian is reconciliation." He has spent a lifetime trying to reconcile East and West, white man and black, the world and Jesus Christ...
What the first sexual revolution in the U.S. attacked was not original Puritanism so much as its Victorian version-which had become a matter of prudery more than of purity, propriety more than of grace. The 19th century frantically insisted on propriety precisely because it felt its real faith and ethics disappearing. While it feared nudity like a plague, Victorian Puritanism had the effect of an all-covering gown that only inflames the imagination. By insisting on suppressing the sex instinct in everything, the age betrayed the fact that it really saw that instinct in everything. So, too, with Sigmund...
...urbane about his (and England's) present predicament, the poor man says: "You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive." "Or like being impotent," says one Russian interrogator drily. The Englishman has the grace to blush...
...Knoxville. She quit college after her father's death and helped support her family by singing at women's clubs and speaking the part of Sleeping Beauty in Walt Disney's movie. But soon she was selling cars on TV, where her Greer Garson beauty and Grace Kelly style quickly made her one of the best in the business. She made her opera debut in Los Angeles in 1958 after Jack Benny talked her into taking herself seriously; he would, he said, gladly have junked his career to become a concert violinist if only...