Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harshness of absolute regimes," said an Italian lawyer last week, "was mitigated in two ways. One was regicide. The other was amnesty-the sovereign's gift of grace. We still have amnesty-so, for the next six months, don't leave your car unattended, and keep your hand on your wallet." Under the fourth general amnesty since 1945, signed into law by President Giovanni Gronchi last week, some 15,000 convicted criminals-and perhaps as many as 100,000 offenders still unsentenced-will walk scot-free out of Italy's jails. Unlike a pardon, which wipes...
Barry Morse plays Tanner at Wellesley with all the elegant arts of a skilled high-comic actor. It is a brilliant, slick performance, full of gaiety and verve and a fast-talking grace reminiscent of Noel Coward. Mr. Morse is admirable as the quarry of the love-chase, the baffled and laughed-at talker, but there is more to the character than the excitable little man he gives us. The "Olympian majesty" specified by Shaw is missing; Tanner's magnificent brashness becomes mere cheek. Mr. Morse can lay down doctrine with considerable brio, but his John Tanner never seems committed...
...determined Ann Whitefield, who forces Jack Tanner to his knees and her arms, Rosemary Harris makes a delicious seductress, ensnaring her prey with a wonderfully cool, crafty grace. In his stage directions Shaw calls Ann "one of the vital geniuses," and Tanner says, referring to her, "Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation." Miss Harris' Ann completely fails to live up to these prescriptions, even during the hell scene when her tempting activities are temporarily in abeyance; but perhaps there is nothing in the lines given her that can be so acted. At any rate, she makes...
...Last week the Washington Post and Times Herald drew some lively ones from old (70) Headwaiter William Reid, long the Pullman Co.'s major-domo in charge of private railway cars for the White House and State Department. Reid's bipartisan White House favorites: Harry Truman and Grace Coolidge. Of Harry: "He got up every morning at 6, and we'd stop the train so he could take his walk." Of Gourmand Warren Gamaliel Harding: "He'd eat anything." Of Calvin Coolidge: "He never used to say much, except when he read the papers...
...promises, to all who trust him, forgiveness of sins and fullness of grace, courage in the struggle for justice and peace, his presence in trial and rejoicing, and eternal life in his kingdom which...