Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...null centuries. One such temple figure, Worshiping Goddess, although now defaced and devoid of some of its multiple arms and symbols, would still speak to the devout. Her ample breasts and hips hark back to primitive man's fertility figures; her divine power is shown by her effortless grace as she sways in the dance, oldest Indian image of the gods and nature in its creative aspect. The goddess indicates by her overlong eyes, high-arched brows and attenuated fingers, touching in prayer or greeting, the inner spiritual tension meant to guide the viewer in his devotions...
...maternal dispatch from Monaco, Princess (High Society) Grace issued a bulletin on the development of five-week-old Princess Caroline, christened at week's end. Straight from the royal cradle: "Little Caroline does not suck her thumb . . . She certainly does not suck all her fingers, as some monster suggested . . . She hates hats . . . She also has a prejudice against her father's camera . . . They say she is a very pretty child, but how should I know...
...city's finest new recital halls, which bring music closer to home because they are in residential areas, e.g., the new auditorium of New York University's Law School in Washington Square, which serves as a musical center for lower Manhattan; the wood-lined, acoustically outstanding Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum on upper Fifth Avenue, which after three years rivals Town Hall as the city's leading recital hall. Taken all together, New York's out-of-the-way music-comparable to the busy off-Broadway theater-keeps the city astir with...
...profoundly moralistic thinker. His system, however, is an almost complete reversal of what is usually considered as morality. For him, the absolute goal of human existence is not the attainment of good, but of evil. This state cannot be reached by mere effort--it must, like Calvinistic grace, be conferred from without. Thus he represents Green Eyes' crime as not rationally motivated...
...sorciere, Marina Vlady has few lines to say, but looks bewitching as she says them. Her grace and gentleness are touching; but these are almost obscured by a film which generally tastes like a tenderized Jungle Princess story, with soupcons of old Salem days stirred in the cauldron...