Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extent that Corry's book ends with the tragedy of the clan's Americanization, its assimilation into a new, and somehow less vital society, perhaps the criticism is valid. For Corry, as another Irishman, can never really condone the family's fall from a state of Gaelic grace, and his book carries with it the insistently remonstrative tone of the well-bred but confidently self-righteous priests and nuns who people it. But still, Corry recognizes that he can't speak ill of his subjects, for the cozy world of Irish-American society they abandoned has slowly ceased to exist...
Everybody loves a clown, particularly a princess. So Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco graced a three-ringside seat at the opening night of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Manhattan last week. The official reason for her presence in New York was the christening of a new, 750-passenger luxury liner, the Cunard Princess. Grace, 47, hurled the traditional bottle of bubbly with impressive brio. "Wonderful arm," quipped New York...
...inner circle of advisers tried to persuade her to annul the election, arrest the opposition leaders in the name of stability and reimpose the full force of the emergency. Whether or not the reports are true, Mrs. Gandhi-to her credit-accepted the voters' decision with quiet grace...
Torpid Tropics. That Grace is an anthropologist and trained observer is of great importance. Any other method of narration might have turned the novel into a pastiche of psychological and social pathology. To begin with, there is Charlotte's education as a norteamericana: "She was immaculate of history, innocent of politics. There were startling vacuums in her store of common knowledge. During the two years she spent at Berkeley before she ran away to New York with an untenured instructor named Warren Bogart, she had read mainly the Brontës and Vogue, bought a loom, gone home...
...evidence uncovered by Grace Strasser-Mendana does not clarify the murder. What is clear, however, is that Joan Didion has produced a remarkable modern variation on Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady. Her technique may seem feverish but it is calculated to give the novel its unique quality-a blend of literary invention and the sort of lurid stories found on the "freak-death" pages of big-city newspapers. Her ear for contemporary speech rhythms, her eye for the incriminating details rank with those of William Gaddis in J.R. But it is Didion's romantic imagination...