Word: graces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shakespeare's quartet of plays deals, in a new symbolic way, with the bonds of friendship and blood. Basic to all four, more specifically, are an estrangement-remorse-reconciliation theme, first attempted (but ending differently) in King Lear, and the idea of grace, a more Christian grace than that found in Macbeth. Near the start of all four, a father loses a child through his own fault...
...from black-tied sponsors to shaggy bohemians. The reception committee numbered 50 strong, ranged alphabetically from the Association of San Francisco Potters to the World Affairs Council. Sitting nervously on the stage, and at times close to tears, was the object of this outpouring of affection: durable, forthright Dr. Grace Louise McCann Morley, 57 (TIME, Feb. 28, 1955). Dr. Morley, the most respected woman museum director in the U.S., and the dominant spokesman for contemporary art on the West Coast, was retiring after 23 years as director of the San Francisco Museum...
Behind her, Grace Morley is leaving a museum she has built up from scratch, and that now boasts a growing first-rate collection, an active membership of 4,400, an annual operating budget of $150,000. Says she, "I'm rather happy-my sense is of 'mission accomplished.' " As a farewell present, she will take with her four massive portfolios of art contributed by some 200 local painters, printmakers, watercolorists and sculptors whom she has long championed. Their admiration and affection is warmly returned by Grace Morley, who says firmly: "The Bay Area...
...blessing of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Bowed under the weight of his damask robes and overshadowed by a huge silver cross, Geoffrey Francis Fisher intoned: "We humbly beseech thee that thy Holy Spirit may lead into truth thy servants the bishops gathered together in thy name. Grant them grace to think and do such things as shall most tend to thy glory and the good of thy holy church." Thus last week opened the ninth (since 1867) Lambeth Conference, which every decade brings together the world's Anglican bishops. This year's attendance: 72 Church of England bishops...
Died. The Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (nee Grace Elvina Hinds of Decatur, Ala.), 80, daughter of a onetime U.S. Minister to Brazil, second wife of the late Marquess Curzon, who was British Viceroy and Governor General of India (1898-1905) and Foreign Secretary (1919-24); near Dover, England. First female recipient of the Grand Cross of the British Empire (conferred on her in 1922 for war work), Lady Curzon was a significant arc in titled circles, an owner of race horses whose brown and pink colors were once familiar at Ascot and Newmarket, and a friend of Lady Randolph Churchill...