Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laborer who had become the sadhus' "disciple" only two months before, he was barely alive. But dead or alive, his act of faith would have made the hill a profitable shrine for his masters who would later pass the hat to pilgrims coming there to seek divine grace. After rescuing the victim, the police raced on to a nearby temple to round up some of the other sadhus who had joined in the ceremony. As the cops arrived, the holy men were busy conducting a service in honor of their profitable goddess...
...brought to an end the most massive and controver sial historical inquiry since Spengler. It saw the West in a time of troubles, on the brink of becoming part of a world state, and ended by affirming that man can control his earthly destiny, but only by earning the grace...
...Reverend John W. McNeil of the Grace Congregational Church said that Pusey has exemplified that we can weed out and remove Communists yet still "maintain that freedom which is as precious to the genius of America as breathing...
...spectator gets the sense that he is not one aspect of the hero in one scene, and another in another, but the whole man at every moment. Vienna-born Maria Schell, playing her third role in English, is just right as the young girl. She shows innocence, lustiness, angelic grace and moral crassness in just the proportions that might tempt a fellow of Scobie's age and situation...
Rear Window. Hot and cold flashes of kissing and killing, as Alfred Hitchcock lets Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and the customer get the eavesdrop on a murderer (TIME...