Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sessions with roughhouse smoothness. Among the assorted clips are mini-homages to Frank Sinatra and Tracy-Hepburn. There are a few surprises too. The best is a glimpse of Kiss Me, Kate (1953), featuring Bob Fosse, years before he became a director or even a choreographer, dancing with sinewy grace...
...what with their hypocrisy and all, than his merry band of outlaws. They demonstrate exemplary camaraderie and a shrewd aw-shucks kind of existential humor. It does not really help much that this funny stuff is juxtaposed with sud denbursts of the most brutal violence, thus demonstrating that whatever grace notes we find in life, a rather grubby mortality always has its stinger...
Quaker Meetings. The resolve necessary for such an act apparently derived from their mother, Grace, who once nursed Jessamyn when the author was gravely ill. At the time Jessamyn was 28 years old, married and about to receive her Ph.D. She found that she had tuberculosis and was rushed to a sanatorium. Two years later, about 1937, she was sent home to die. Grace had other ideas. Recovery was plainly harrowing: "I could not live in either the past which was past, or the present from which I was locked away." Jessamyn remembers and describes with some retrospective amusement...
...Grace nursed Jessamyn's body but could do nothing about her gloomy and exhausted spirit until she hit upon the idea of reconstructing her Quaker heritage for her daughter. "Grace gave me southern Indiana," writes Jessamyn, recalling how day after day for a year and a half her mother told her stories about courtship and farming, blizzards and Quaker meetings. "There was no pain there for me. It was nothing I once possessed and had lost; it was not a future forbidden to me." And so she was slowly wooed back to life. Eventually, she even turned her mother...
...SAME TIME, Mack highlights the various ways in which a political life, first in the Arab rebellion and later in a Royal Air Force career, allowed Lawrence to exercise his talent for "enabling." Lawrence, through his sharp understanding of the needs of men, managed with grace to prod and guide them into putting their wishes into action. Erik Erikson stressed this same talent for "enabling" in Mahatmha Ghandi, in a work, Ghandi's Truth, that sets the standard for insightful psycho-history. And like Erikson, Mack demonstrates how Lawrence made this talent a continual game that challenged his considerable wits...