Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salt from Philadelphia, who served as round-the-world navigator on his father's schooner and as a lieutenant commander in World War II, Baker still finds that every cover story requires a different trim of the sails. The main job in his Grace Kelly cover was to catch the cool, white-gloved elegance of a new kind of Hollywood star. With André Malraux it was to define the place of an elusive literary and political figure in the complicated world of contemporary French intellectualism. Other cover stories have been fast-breaking narratives...
...Manhattan sightseer, New Hampshire's earthy Novelist Grace Metalious, 32, whose sex-gorged Peyton Place (TIME, Sept. 24) has stood No. 1 on the nation's bestseller lists for almost two months, counterattacked censors and all who would ban her barnyard portrayal of a rampageous U.S. hamlet. Cried plumpish Authoress Metalious, mother of three: "I know about small towns. A rock in a field may look firm, but kick it over and you'll find all kinds of things crawling underneath. Too much sex? How can you write a novel about normal men and women, let alone...
...swans' neck faucets and the 27-piece George I silver toilet service, is already as surely a thing of the past as the stately English homes for which the objects were first fashioned. Gone is the era in which the lady of the mansion and her good friend Grace Vanderbilt, who lived across 86th Street, would be chauffeured around the block to visit (because a lady went no farther than from her door to the curb on foot...
...faerie grace and elfin feature She is just the kind of creature Who destroys our resolution Giving place to-evolution...
Behind Small War on Murray Hill lies the faint shadow of a great war all over the world that had colored Sherwood's thinking and that gives his play, at moments, a certain pensive grace. But it has given it neither dramatic fiber nor intellectual focus. Offering well-turned prose rather than vivacious dialogue, Small War is too reflective for light comedy, yet it is not nearly stimulating enough for a comedy of ideas...