Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest painters, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was an ardent aficionado of the bullfight. He sometimes signed his name "Francisco de los Toros," and he claimed to have faced the bulls himself in his youth. At 69, after a lifetime of watching the recurring drama of blood, grace and courage, Goya set out to do a pictorial history of the bullfight. The result was a magnificent series of etchings called La Tauromaquia...
...adult but unharmonized play. In some degree it is unharmonized, perhaps, through being adult. The play raises a complex of questions; and even if it is not so old-fashioned as to try to answer them, it cannot altogether clothe and dramatize them, either. Playwright Funt tells of Grace Wilson (Uta Hagen), a divorced Manhattan career woman. Grace is gunning for a much bigger job at her advertising agency. She has an agency executive (Lee Bowman) for a lover, a 14-year-old son (Charles Taylor) who stumbles onto the love affair, and an ex-husband, a West Coast professor...
...Adventists did their best to nurse Ronnie back to life and health. At last, his luck seemed to have turned; he was adopted by a kindly Korean nurse named Grace Kim who had already adopted a war-orphaned girl. Grace scrounged food and vitamins for Ronnie, gave him the love he needed and dreamed of sending him one day to the U.S. But Ronnie coughed more and more, and then developed even more alarming symptoms. He began walking with an old man's stoop, and, when he dropped a toy, he would fall to the floor before he could...
Ronnie's diseased bones, she told the doctors, must be replaced with her own. Grace herself had already undergone a serious kidney operation, and the doctors were doubtful if she should attempt another, but the nurse was firm. And so Ronnie's ailing vertebrae were reinforced with healthy bone grafts from Grace...
Last week the doctor chipped off a plaster cast that had held Grace Kim prisoner for nearly five months. Grace, he said, would limp for a long time to come, but eventually she would walk normally. As for her foster son, his back is still in a cast, but growing stronger every day. Smiling happily as he sat nearby in gay blue pajamas, five-year-old Ronnie Kim carefully assembled a toy out of sticks. "It's an airplane," he explained, "to take my mother to America some...