Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rodgers score, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue remains-when such ballets are no longer news-vibrant and exciting. There is a fine dancing rampage to go with the title song; Zorina, in the part she played in London 17 years ago, still has grace and charm; Bobby Van, in Ray Bolger's old role, has much of the master's ease and dexterity; Elaine Stritch stops the show with an aggressively lowdown warbling of an added song, You Took Advantage of Me. But for notable stretches there is torpor on 46th Street...
...does he do it? Billy would be able to answer that one right off, and with deep sincerity: by the grace of God. "If God should take His hands off my life," says Billy, "my lips would turn to clay. I'm no great intellectual, and there are thousands of men who are better preachers than I am. You can't explain me if you leave out the supernatural. I am but a tool...
...emotion, but I sure did. And when you fall in love with Jesus, you are. going to feel it ... Now if I had married all the girls ... I wanted to marry, the Lord only knows where I would have been tonight. The Lord gave me the grace and the strength and the courage to wait . . . And after eleven years, we are still sweethearts. And it's been heaven...
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...
...which he saw living and dying in regular cycles. This concept was popularized by Germany's brilliant Historian Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), but where Spengler saw the rise and fall of civilizations inexorably fated, Toynbee believed them subject to man's free will and God's grace...