Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among them: J.P. Morgan the Elder, Columbia University's Seth Low, Financier Robert Fulton Cutting. *Who once observed, in an address to the New York Lutheran Ministers Association: "In the Episcopal Church the bishop is an interesting decoration. We must have someone around to say grace at banquets...
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 (Pathétique) in C Minor (Erno Balogh, Vox, 4 sides; Rudolf Serkin, Columbia, 6 sides). Two versions of a much-needed recording. Balogh plays with grace, Serkin with passion. Performance of both: good...
...Miracle?" With one musical rehearsal on Wednesday evening in Sanders Theatre, a single drill run-through on Friday afternoon behind the Stadium, and one coordinated practice session two hours before game time, those in the know think the term far from strong. Saving grace is that when the unit comes onto the field ten minutes before the game, it is keyed up by two hours of concentrated effort in blending "sound" and "action." It passes quickly into formations which only a day or two before were nothing more than ideas and, half an hour before, a seeming hopeless shambles...
Basic neo-orthodox premises: the Bible is the authoritative-though not necessarily literal-source of divine revelation; fallen man is innately so "other" than God that he can accomplish virtually nothing by good works, prayer or fasting, but must nevertheless keep trying, in hope of rescue by Divine Grace...
...such a claim could never have been made. The Gregorys tell with sympathetic amusement of the doings of highflown and boyish spirits like Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, singers of "the open road," and the feeble graces of others like Thomas Bailey Aldrich. But they recognize the "serenity, grace and lightness" of George Santayana's best verse, and properly value the authentic American nostalgia expressed by James Whitcomb Riley...