Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George F. Kennan, former United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and father of Grace Kennan '54, will be the main speaker at the Radcliffe Commencement exercises, June...
Writing of Grant Wood's painting Midnight Ride of Paul Revere in your March 1 issue, you say ". . . it lacks every grace save precision and is as meticulous in execution as a Flemish altarpiece." Perhaps, but no horse . . . ever galloped with his two front legs stretched out in front and his two hind legs extending to the rear...
Private Schine (who accepted the rough and the smooth with good grace) suddenly found his privileges curtailed. The Army report made it clear that whole brigades of high Army brass had wasted a disturbing amount of time over Schine. And it had even more interesting personal facets...
...muckers and muckrakers, with the tocsin of false alarm gleefully tolled in state and national legislatures, each student must prepare himself to carry the weight of freedom. Harvard independence has been extolled by its alumni, exhorted by its deans, and recently received the accolade (if not the coup de grace) of recognition by Henry Luce...
...Lumbard's Senior Spring is a novel with one saving grace: its ability to treat with considerable maturity that sorely bandied subject, young love. Its plot and all but one of its characters are ill-defined; its attempt to paint the everyday life of a far-western college fraternity is far from satisfying; and sometimes the writing approaches the abysmal. Yet because of its single redeeming feature, it is an interesting and promising first novel...