Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls make a fascinating study in feminine contrasts. Miyoshi takes life as it comes, one small step at a time. Pat grasps for it all-hungry, anxious, impatient. Japan-born Miyoshi moves slowly, precisely, with cautious grace; at 29, she is American by solemn determination, but she still lives in the ordered, traditional world of her tight little island home. California-born Pat Suzuki, 28, is American by instinct, chafed by restrictions, careless of customs, and in a hurry. It is possible to see in Pat and Miyoshi the embodiment of the ancient, universal Chinese principles of Yang...
...Saving Grace. Their determined serenity is sometimes derided; says Cole Porter: "I could spot Dick's songs anywhere. There is a certain holiness about them." But with serenity goes an unfailing professional competence. In Flower Drum-Song they do not shrink from such corn as a hula-hooping little girl and that ancient scene about the Chinese maiden who does not understand Western kissing; but there is always a saving grace of humor or taste, or at least professionalism. As their own producers, they ruthlessly cut their favorite songs or scenes if they detect that alarming rustle of inattention...
...From all but Manhattan's critical dean, the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson, the touring Old Vic production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night drew warm approval. Judith Crist of the Herald Tribune thought it "a delightful comedy augmented by charm and grace," but Atkinson rated the show "uninspired...
...court), his five-story town house in Manhattan (East 69th Street), or his pink Palm Beach house. (Magowan rents another Southampton house to Mrs. Cyrus McCormick.) With his pretty wife Doris, he moves through the top echelons of San Francisco's moneyed, operagoing society, is a trustee of Grace Episcopal Cathedral. He plays bridge (½? to 1? a point when serious), tennis (fairly good), and golf (mid-nineties), likes to dance, prefers vintage French wine, is an inveterate pipe smoker (75 pipes and Brooks Bros. mixture 346). He is wealthy enough in his own right so that two years...
...Mozart's 18th Symphony in F major, has made an immense improvement over its first concert earlier this year. The tone, although still tentative-sounding, is more unified and much warmer, and the intonation is better. There is room for more variety in dynamics and a little more grace and awareness of details which would have especially added charm to the Mozart. Harbison's readings are entirely straightforward, concentrating on a good sound rather than interpretive depth; but the notes were, for the most part, well played...