Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conviction grew in the creative writing course that he taught at Manhattan's Walden School. There, Lewis developed a profound respect for the spontaneity and grace with which youngsters can compose poetry. In 1964, he spent ten months on a tour of English-speaking countries that took him through the British Isles, Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Canada and most of the United States. From schools, from the secret notebooks of children too shy to recite, and from the mouths of children too young to write, he collected 3,000 poems or almost-poems, the best...
...change of meaning. Antonioni presents for public inspection a slice of death: the same cold death of the heart his stories invariably describe. Yet in Blow-Up, Antonioni's anti-hero holds in his possession, if only for an instant, the alexin of his cure: the saving grace of the spirit...
Director John Hirsch has imposed a death-march pace on the drama, though he has a gift for composing some tableaux that unfold with the dreamy slow-motion grace of an underwater ballet. Smoldering with anger and frustration, Gloria Foster commands the stage but cannot control her part. Her vocal range tends to be loud, louder, loudest, and she has yet to learn that the seat of passion is not the larynx...
Finding that 4% is like betting on a two-year-old maiden race. Two publishers turned down the manuscript of a Gilmanton, N.H., housewife named Grace Metalious before Publisher Julian Messner gambled...
...birds to rank with those of Gould and Audubon distinguish this sumptuous volume devoted to Canadian birds, most of them, of course, with dual citizenship in the U.S. Lansdowne is an artist who gratifies the ornithologist with his precision and detail, and he charms the print fancier with his grace and delicacy of tone. Worth the price of 30 bushels of sunflower seeds...