Word: graces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the greatly reduced string ensemble in Bach's C-minor concerto (no. 1) for violin and oboe often failed to express the grace and flexibility in this lovely music. The soloists were the winners of the orchestra's concerto contest: John Austin played a rather discreet fiddle, which was occasionally overwhelmed by the powerful oboe playing of Carl Schlaikjer; nevertheless both parts were very well done. The other competition winned was E. S. Stewart, whose Variations on a Melody won the contest for undergraduate compositions...
...stroke will be veterans Jim McClenan and Tory Everett along with sophomore Ken Gregg. These men provide a strong base for blending the rest of the crew. The oarsmen in the bow four are still undergoing change as Love seeks to find a crew which has both the necessary grace and power behind...
Along a corridor of the lush Cecil Clinic in Lausanne, Switzerland, paced Prince Rainier, furrow-browed. He need not have worried. In less than 30 minutes Monaco's radiant Princess Grace was wheeled in and out of the operating room, where Philadelphia Surgeon James Lehman snipped out her mildly inflamed appendix, then happily pronounced Her Serene Highness "in first-class shape...
...under a spotlight, with house lights dark and violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine in the world," says Sinclair Lewis Socialite Lucille McKelvey, but the remark passes several noodle-lengths...
...next within a ridiculous plot. The pre-occupation with sex makes even the usual Hasty Pudding obsession seem mild, while the amours of various hermaphroditic characters is embarrassingly unfunny. The play's tasteless broadness clashes incongruously with Arthur Honegger's witty and sophisticated score which is its only saving grace...