Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year stately, plump Queen Juliana of The Netherlands walked up for her annual Speech from the Throne with the heavy grace of a Wagnerian diva. Last week a trim, svelte (25 Ibs. lighter) Juliana delivered another royal oration, and the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully revealed what it claimed to be the slimming secret: a bland diet ordered by a fat, fiftyish hair-restorer salesman named Jos de Cock, who runs the "Enorga Institute" in The Hague. After an analysis of strips of litmus paper that a prospective weight loser licks after meals, went the story, De Cock devises...
Life-loving Milles could not resist adding grace notes of Puckish humor to the attendant figures, two angels and a faun. To visitors who came to see the all-but-complete figures in the studio, Milles did his tongue-in-cheek best to explain away the oddities: "Why is there an angel playing the flute? Horses love music, didn't you know? Why did I put the angel on one side? Don't you think God sends his people down to see what we are doing? The other angel has a wristwatch; I don't know...
...Karl Morgan Block, 71, brisk, stately Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Bishop Block, who will be succeeded by his coadjutor, James Albert Pike, formerly dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, collapsed at an ordination ceremony in Grace Cathedral, murmured to his assistant, "Bishop, will you continue?", died in the sacristy moments later...
...daughter Sara, portrayed with grace by Kim Stanley, grows in love only when she can decide his fault, which she so clearly sees, is extraneous to that love. She despairs when her father comes at last to see himself as he is, then agrees with her simple mother that the vanished hero dwelt only in the mind and let it be. These are two great women...
Here, Bernard Berenson '87, an extraordinary mind, a mind dedicated to the canons of renaissance grace and the call of exhaustive inquiry, has labored, searched and meditated. I Tatti has already become something of a legend...