Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone, perhaps, but not forgotten. A few weeks ago, New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay wrote to Philadelphia's Mayor James Tate asking for Diana's return to grace the new $38 million Madison Square Garden now abuilding on the site of the old Pennsylvania Station. Last week Tate replied: Never. "When no one wanted this poor little orphan girl, Philadelphia took her in, gave her a palatial home, and created a beautiful image for her." Added Tate: "Would you really have me believe that you would give Manhattan back to the Indians if they returned...
N.A.R.'s fiction roams imaginatively over a wide landscape-from a Kafkaesque account of a prisoner-of-war interrogation in Viet Nam by Victor Kolpacoff to a bittersweet rendition of a mother's day in Washington Square Park by Grace Paley ("Kitty has three green-eyed daughters and they aren't that great . . . they are no worse than the average gifted, sensitive child of a wholehearted mother and half-a-dozen transient fathers...
...Woodstock, Father Murray's theological specialties were the Trinity and grace. But he was also keenly interested in the church's dealings with the world, and his learned debating on behalf of incorporating church-state separation into Catholic polity became so lively in the pages of the American Ecclesiastical Review that his order eventually silenced him with instructions to clear all his future writing on church-state matters with Jesuit headquarters in Rome...
...enhance Bayreuth as a cultural force of worldwide significance, Wieland broke with the old chauvinistic policies toward performers and imported singers and conductors of all nationalities. Bayreuth's postwar glory, in fact, rests largely on the shoulders of American singers and conductors: George London, James King, Jess Thomas, Grace Bumbry, Thomas Stewart, Thomas Schippers and scores of others...
Sandy Dennis plays Tyro Schoolmarm Sylvia Barrett and re-creates with considerable grace her abandonment of college-bred tenets and concepts to cope with realities in the concrete jungle. Both antagonistic forces-a bunch of surly, underprivileged kids on one side and a school administration of monolithic obtuseness on the other-abound in stereotypes: the unloved Fat Girl, the sullen boy with a streak of buried brilliance, the love-hungry spinster, the platitude-spinning principal and his vicious, misanthropic assistant...