Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With striking sets and lighting, Jerome Robbins' dance sequences are the most entertaining portion of the revue. Ballerina Nora Kaye is fascinating to watch, almost as much for the malevolence of her features as for the brilliance and grace of her dancing. Since Miss Kaye is one of the country's foremost interpretive dancers, however, it's inexplicable why Jerome Robbins has her call out lines like "I need you" in the middle of a rather pretentious ballet scene. Another highly gifted performer, Maria Karnilova is a torrid Latin in Esther, an energetic vulgarity which set two priests next...
...Corriere delta Sera to write some articles about the life of the natives, I was accompanied at the personal order of Mussolini by some policemen . . . who had the charge of not leaving me one minute for fear that I might escape . . . I was so much in the grace of Mussolini that I was never permitted to speak on the radio, to work in the theater or in the cinema, and from 1933 until the liberation, I was deprived of a passport, while all the other writers-for example, [Alberto] Moravia and [Elio] Vittorini-had them . . . In 1940 . . . I was recalled...
Viscount Gage, who claims descent from a supporter of King John's in his war with the barons, had his pedigree lopped by 200 years. The best proved ancestor Pine could give Lady (Harriet Kathleen Grace) Thompson, whose family had for generations enjoyed descent from Odo, brother-in-law of William the Conqueror, was one Oliver Grace, a 16th century M.P. from Tipperary. "I'm challenging Burke's to show by what authority they make our family suffer this indignity," said the outraged Lady...
...Critics who then spoke of her in the same breath with Shakespeare might like to take back a lot of what they said. But even the relentless weeding-out by time has left a handful of lyrics and sonnets that still have both zest and grace...
...horse. Neither Brady nor anyone else in the book is a successfully developed character, but with all its weaknesses The Wonderful Country is still a western plus. What is extra comes in Author Lea's fine descriptive writing, a love for the West that is conveyed with grace and dignity, an authentic sense of place...