Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grows older he becomes acquainted with the problems of puberty and sex, but passes through this period with little difficulty because of his father's frank advice. The puppy-love stage is treated with all the seriousness it deserves and when Andrew falls from grace at the rather tender age of 16 he is orientated by his father and helped rather than hurt. This close understanding of father and son is present throughout the volume in almost too perfect harmony, but Marks appears to be looking back and seeing how the situation should have been...
...writer of "The Foxes" has not sacrificed his art or his pleasure on the altars of fame and true greatness. He has no pretensions. He does not attempt to explain life or to escape it, he presents it as he sees it, with a quiet grace and charm that is always captivating. The Negro dialect is presented echoicly without the slightest attempt at humor. The work is a lyrical pastoral, delicately beautiful. One must struggle to speak prosaicly of it when inevitably there is a rhapsody on the tip of one's tongue...
What is the reader to decide about Allegra and Byron, now that moralistic criticism is out of fashion? One is always at loss somehow in endeavoring to avoid becoming the Pharisee and declaring self-righteously, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." For the Romantics were good poets but very unlovely men, and Byron was the most unmanageable of the lot. Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long...
...that its agents were not sophisticated enough to understand it. The second is that U. S. cinema censors have suddenly become sufficiently enlightened to pass scenes showing a young couple misbehaving together when the picture which includes them has definite esthetic merit. Desire is a romantic comedy of grace, dexterity and charm in which Marlene Dietrich's performance is the best she has given since she became too dignified to exhibit the legs which brought her her first U. S. fame in the Bine Angel...
Yale alternates-Moore, Nagel, Middleton, Gargarin, Childs, Pillsbury, Robinson, Pearce, Grace, Jackson...