Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unprecedented invitation from John Cardinal Heenan, 63, to speak at London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral. Demonstrators from the conservative British Council of Protestant Christian Churches waited for Ramsey outside the cathedral, name-calling and waving placards that accused Ramsey of "Running to Rome." In the pulpit, His Grace was unwavering. "We are able now," he said, "with the authority of both our churches, to act together not as rivals but as allies...
...titles in 1964 when she was only 15. She kept winning them every year since, and in the 1964 Olympics, her first taste of international competition, she finished sixth. Since then, she has won two world championships-in 1966 and 1967-largely on the strength of her balletlike grace. At Philadelphia, she drew a standing ovation for her final "spread eagle-double axel-spread eagle" (after coasting along with her feet at a 180° angle, she leaps, turns 21 times around, and lands as she started). Her lowest score from any of the five judges...
...PEYTON PLACE, Grace Metalious...
...Symphony's Colin Davis, 40, ranks as Britain's best conductor since Sir Thomas Beecham. He has a relatively wide repertory, ranging from Mozart through Berlioz to Stravinsky, and an uncanny talent for instilling the faded and familiar with fresh life. His straightforward technique combines grace with precision and gravity with rhythmic bite, and his touch in the opera pit is firm and stylish...
Tents & Churchlets. Some theologians believe that cathedrals, and all large churches, are obsolete, at least as far as the city is concerned. San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral, with a capacity of 2,392, averages only 500 to 600 worshipers on a typical Sunday; except at services celebrating Christmas and Easter, St. John the Divine is rarely filled...