Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guatemala's anti-Yanqui bosses muscled in on another old-line U.S. company last week. The firm was W. R. Grace & Co., which for 25 years had managed the lightering and warehouse operations at the Pacific port of San José through a local affiliate in which Grace held a 64% stock interest. After refusing to renew the port company's permit, the government "intervened" in its affairs but ordered Grace officials to run the port until a new management could be found. Guatemalans heard that the owners would be forced to part with enough stock shares...
...Wells executive: "Potential leaders are men who frequently have been so busy with their own affairs that they have drifted away from the church . . . Subconsciously, they have the conviction that they haven't been doing enough work for the Lord and would like to know how they can gracefully become active. We provide them with the grace and the means...
...Ronnie Kim's father: I extend respect for TIME'S restraint in its terse acknowledgement of the colonel's part in Ronnie's existence-no stones for daddy, who so richly deserves them, but only high praise for the superb Grace Kim, the Korean nurse who adopted Ronnie. However, I have not reached TIME'S commendable state of quiet in regard to the guilty. I feel a suffocating anger when I think of the anonymous colonel...
...Grace's various problems both interlock and collide: the struggle for the job helps lose her lover; the presence of the lover alienates the boy. The deepest problem of all is that fierce drive inside herself that makes bosses, husbands and lovers shy away, and makes her simultaneously bitter about a "man's world." With a final slightly pat irony, Grace gets the big job only because the man who is given first pick wants too much money...
...play is honestly and in spots movingly written. It is also well staged and acted, with Actress Hagen brilliantly right as Grace. Its content is valid; the chief trouble is a kind of clash between form and content. By relying on a naturalistic method, the play comes to need the greater fullness and freedom of the novel. There are too many problems in The Magic - indeed, too many potential problem plays-for it to focus quite right, or reverberate enough on the stage. Thus, for lack of elbow room, the play has Grace, within minutes, faced with the loss...