Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he is not unmasking cruelty, Author Powers takes a Waughspish delight in lampooning vulgarity. The Presence of Grace is about a sociable young curate, Father Fabre, who unwittingly dignifies a liaison between one of his parishioners, Mrs. Mathers, and her non-Catholic paramour, Mr. Pint, by dining with them and Mr. Pint's daughter Velma. The high comic humors of the story and the evening revolve around an old-fashioned ice cream freezer...
...PRESENCE OF GRACE (191 pp.)-J. F. Powers-Doubleday...
...present-day U.S. short story writing with such writers as John Cheever and J. D. Salinger, and he surprisingly evokes the same sad dilemma that plagues Cheever's disenchanted Upper East Side Manhattanites and Salinger's poor little rich boys with fractured psyches. The Presence of Grace is really about the absence of love...
Since Thieves' Carnival is at least partly fantasy, it requires a particularly light touch in its staging. Director Fritz Kracht, evidently cognizant of this has given the production a great deal of grace and movement. Most of the cast responds to his direction with capable performances, although one or two of them seem a little uncertain of their lines. But there is nothing unsure about the acting of Ray Duffy, who plays the leader of the thieves. He makes an altogether likeable yegg. Herb Adams, the second member of the trio, tends to overplay his part of a professional seducer...
TRUSTBUSTER BARNES will soon announce more consent decree settlements in major antitrust cases being prosecuted by the Justice Department. Among companies negotiating for terms: RCA, United Fruit Co., Pan American-Grace Airways...