Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agricultural Economics in Washington before he came to TIME. And still another was with LIFE for five years, interviewed all the 1940 presidential candidates for TIME'S sister publication, worked on some of LIFE'S most famous feature stories, including those on the Windsors, Juan Trippe, Eugene Grace...
...unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling of a cat, "and what would grace the concert yet more, would be the rubbing of a wet finger upon the window glass...
...master at making detail, action and physical sensation palpable, and almost Homerically fresh. At his worst he is a pedestrian writer, capable of serious lapses of literary judgment, but enormously sensitive to a certain landscape and a certain people. If he ever wrestles a subject his size with grace as well as grit, he may make literary history...
...Grew's long diplomatic life in Mexico City, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna and Ankara fully revealed, T.R. had had nothing to fear. Grew had grace and kindliness, quiet firmness when it was demanded, a subtle understanding of foreign temperaments and manners...
...cast, in which Orson Welles does not appear, are all good actors with difficult roles to perform. Dolores Costello and Tim Holt, as her spoiled son, present the central conflict of the plot. The son, whose character is strikingly like that of Citizen Kane, lacks the one saving grace of the Ambersons--their charm. His narrow-mindedness and conceit contrast sharply with the polish and warmth of his mother. Yet his stronger traits triumph over her more delicate virtues, destroy her life, and dissipate the family fortune. Once again the main role is that of an unpleasant, cruel man like...