Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World gesture toward royalty, Manhattan's Regency Hotel ordered a custom-sewn flag of Monaco. Then arrived Princess Grace, 33, and Prince Rainier, 39, and suddenly everything went All-American. The Grimaldis wanted TV-and five sets were sent up, one for each room. Their usual breakfast order was ham 'n' eggs, with oatmeal for the children (Caroline, 6, and Albert, 5). When supplies ran short, Princess Grace herself would traipse off to a nearby grocery. The night she attended a posh art show, Daddy went to the circus-and the youngsters stayed home nursing colds...
...hence is genuine now: Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 (formerly No. 4) in G major, Op. 88. Here Swoboda seemed to be a free man on home territory, and he was exciting to watch and hear. In the waltz of the third movement, he and the orchestra were all grace; in the final movement he shifted tempo and mood expertly. Here, safe in romanticism, the orchestra came alive...
...English painters as a whole may not have been after universal themes; but they caught an age for all time, with all its grace and majesty and the sordidness that lay beneath. A Constable landscape may be a vast vista of perfect peace; but Hogarth is not far behind to remind one, like a conscience, that art must also deal with filth, poverty and disease. The Mellon collection gives a fresh view of a time of stunning versatility and charm. To the English, art was a craft to be perfected with loving care, and the grace note was often...
...have never seen this part well performed, and the obvious reason is Hal's damnably difficult problem of how to approach the moment where he chides "his truant youth with such a grace/As if he mastered there a double spirit/Of teaching and of learning instantly." Rittenhouse has the necessary grace both to enjoy the truant life and to reject it; what he lacks, I imagine, is simply the impression of immense energy ready to be turned to great deeds...
...baseball squad is leating Cornell at Kindlestick the Crimson tennis squad will be molishing Army. The match appear to be pretty much of a joke -- Harvard doing most of the chuck Nine lettermen, including the top men from the team that thrased Cadets 9-0 last year, again grace varsity roster...