Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reality that I remember well. In my New England neighborhood the grandparents of my friends looked very much like those in his illustrations. There was no one with a camera handy when the boys (and girls) stole apples from a neighbor's orchard and said their grace before meals, or when my own doctor examined my doll for symptoms of asthma. Norman Rockwell's work has preserved those scenes from everyday life, and 300 years from now our descendants will know that apple trees grew in our neighbors' gardens, our elderly lived with their children more often...
...flower-strewn steps, the mood of the civil rights rebellion of the 1960s was evoked as the crystalline voice of Folk Singer Joan Baez led the assembled marchers in the familiar songs: Kumbaya, Amazing Grace and Oh, Freedom. More candles were lit, more wreaths dropped on the steps, and an undercurrent of bitterness broke through the sadness. "Are you happy, Anita?" asked one crudely lettered sign in cruel reference to homosexuality's hated foe, Anita Bryant...
Temple Attorney Charles Garry says Jones was obsessed with a custody fight for a boy he claimed was his own. The child, John, was born in 1972 to Grace Stoen, who with her husband Timothy was one of Jones' top associates. At Jones' behest, Timothy Stoen signed an affidavit declaring that he had personally requested that the child be sired by "the most compassionate, honest and courageous human being the world contains." The Stoens now deny that Jones was the father and won legal custody of the child last year after a court fight. But Jones refused...
DIED. Robert C. Hill, 61, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1969-72) and four Latin American nations; of a heart attack; in Littleton, N.H. An executive with W.R. Grace & Co., Hill became the youngest ambassador in American history when he was appointed envoy to Costa Rica in 1953 at age 36. He was sent to El Salvador the following year and to Mexico City from 1957 to 1961. Returning to private business, he also served on the Republican National Committee's foreign policy task force, and was sent to Madrid when President Nixon took office. Hill was assigned...
...concerto, like much of Mozart's music, was composed quickly and on commission. The composer adhered rigidly to the classical concerto form, and scored his work modestly. But already, at the age of 18, he had mastered the delicate orchestration, the ethereal grace and the inimitable turn of phrase that one associates with his later and more famous works. Thus endowed, he turned everything he touched to gold; even his 'minor' works are illuminated with his genius...