Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve: Ernest Briggs, James Brooks, Sam Francis, Fritz Glanner, Philip Guston, Raoul Hague, Grace Hartigan, Franz Kline, Ibram Lassaw, Seymour Lipton, José de Rivera. Larry Rivers...
...Swan. A witty fairy tale, written by Ferenc Molnar, in which Grace Kelly is won by middle-aged Prince Charming Alec Guinness (TIME, April...
...Bloody Woe." O'Flaherty's Aran islanders move with a Biblical grace and solemnity. Like Bible stories-also told of a religious, race-proud people of dirtpoor shepherds and fishermen-O'Flaherty's tales deal with sin and the seasons and, as in the Bible, the enemies of simple folk are the money-changers of the towns and the soldiers of a foreign king...
...affair. Each may conceive the other as strange, wrongheaded, downright wicked. An individual caught up in such a conflict sees himself as a missioner to the heathen, clad in the righteous armor of the sole truth, his own. In this compact novel of grace and distinction, John (Hiroshima, The Wall) Hersey captures the essential pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades ago, the West's Promethean spirit of change collides with...
...Swan. A pretty, witty fairy tale, by Ferenc Molnar, in which Grace Kelly is won by Prince Charming Alec Guinness (TIME, April...