Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another . . . Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers . . . Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven...
...wintry artificiality, a few of the individual performances sometimes have a springtime sweetness. In Claire Bloom,* Chaplin has found one of his loveliest leading ladies and an actress of lyric grace. Chaplin's own acting now & again glimmers with the poignancy of his internationally beloved little tramp. And in one magnificent music-hall scene, in which Chaplin plays a left-handed violinist and stony-faced Buster Keaton an impossibly nearsighted pianist, the two greatest comedians of the silent screen make Limelight glow with a sure sense of pantomime-timing, as crisply clean and uncluttered a masterpiece of comic craft...
Holes & Lumps. Ritchie's show begins with some of the early giants: Auguste Rodin's skin-smooth St. John the Baptist. with its supple lines and easy Renaissance grace; Arietide Maillol's pensive Mediterranean, heavier and thicker; Constantin Brancusi's early abstractions. All the abstractions of the '20s and '30s, says Ritchie, flowed out of the work and theory of those three men. Rodin used to say that sculpture was merely "the hole and the lump"; his admirers carried the idea to a ruthlessly literal conclusion...
...person he becomes in his latest book, Prisoner of Grace, is a woman, Nina. A young orphan girl in a declining family in England of the 1890s, she is in love all her life with her cousin and childhood friend Jim Latter. When she is still in her teens, not yet mistress of her mind or her emotions, he gets her pregnant. To prevent scandal, her strong-minded guardian, Aunt Latter, marries her off to Chester Nimmo, a bright but poor local chap. Chester, twice Nina's age, is aware of her condition but considers the marriage a bargain...
...very antithesis of Graham Greene, the guilt-ridden Catholic who keeps pecking away at the problem of personal salvation. Prisoner of Grace (though Gary says it wasn't) might have been written as an answer to Greene's End of the Affair. Personal salvation, Gary would say, is too selfish a business to bother about: his heroine is more concerned with her two dependent men than with her own rescue. Moral law? Justice? As far as human beings should concern themselves, "the world consists entirely of exceptions...