Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mozart: Symphony No. 35, K. 385 (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Toscanini's second try on records at the "Haffner" still falls short of Toscanini's heights; this one still lacks the spaciousness and grace of Sir Thomas Beecham's performance with the London Philharmonic. Recording: good...
...corners of a Manhattan gallery, eerie creatures of wrinkled plaster and bronze stalked or stood like forlorn little Whiffenpoofs that had somehow lost their way. Slender as spindles, they vaguely resembled men & women emaciated and stretched to the snapping point. They bore themselves with a fragile grace; but their flesh was pitted and pocked, as if the crusted plaster had been dabbed on in a single feverish instant...
...concerned the initiation of one Dan H. Fenn '44, who was required to sit in the front row of Professor Merriam's History 1, read the CRIMSON from front to back; and then crumple it up and stalk out as the lecturer droned on. His subsequent return to official grace provides an accurate indication of the values of CRIMSON training...
...formation of the Rumanian People's Republic under a tractable five-man "presidential council." It all went so quickly that one member of the new council was not even in town to take his oath of office. Contemporary history's prettiest paradox-a king by the grace of Communism-was ended...
January and March offer fair skiing at the Northfield, Massachusetts Ski Hostel. The shelter is situated on Mr. Grace, and, in addition to having its own slopes, is within easy reach of the towfed hills at Bernardston and Greenfield, Massachusetts and Brattlebore, Vormont...