Word: gracing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dubbed voice is as thin as the plot, and Eastwood's real one is scarcely a millimeter thicker. Marvin gamely rasps his lines, but crooning is not his bag. Comedy is. Fitted with outrageous muttonchop whiskers and a mop of a mustache, he postures and pratfalls with a grace that was previously achieved only by Buster Keaton and total alcoholics...
From Cornell's point of view. Harkness is the best thing ever to grace its athletic program. In 1959, the Big Red suffered through a 0-10 season, losing to Harvard 18-0 and 13-0. The same thing happened the next year, and Cornell was the laughingstock of the League. They lost 26 straight Ivy games. They had only two Canadians on the squad...
Charisma,* as defined in political terms by Sociologist Max Weber, refers to a leader who has a special grace or extraordinary power to rule by the force of personality alone. In more primitive lands, such a ruler was frequently revered as a father figure with magical capacities. Peasants in Turkey, for example, believed that Dictator Kemal Ataturk was impervious to bullets. Even in relatively sophisticated societies, there is a deep-rooted need for magic. The fact that the magician may not really have talent or wisdom is less important than the popular belief that...
...written years ago for his son's wedding: "May your gladness ripen as a yellow sweet fruit and the radiance of your thinking invigorate the world." After the ceremony and a kiss, Arlo led the entire wedding party of 150 in his favorite hymn, Amazing Grace-How Sweet the Sound. Then everybody lined up to kiss the bride, who may have silently reflected on a fateful day last year when she told Joady Guthrie that she was going to marry his brother Arlo and would he please introduce them...
...rest of the program all too obviously deepening her rapport with the host. Next, in what is to be the series' standard format. Namath and Schaap quipped and kibitzed through film clips of the Jets' latest game. Dick reveled in the miscues, while Joe extolled the "pure grace" of his own passing style. Namath was more modest about his fluffs as a TV rookie. He kidded about his troubles with cue cards and his muff of the first commercial lead-in, joshing: "1 did that good, didn...