Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concentration on the task at hand. His mental "book" on the weaknesses of National League batters is so detailed that Giants Catcher Tom Haller never even bothers to go over the opposing line-up before a game. His stockiness (5 ft. 11 in., 190 Ibs.) belies his agility and grace. Marichal's overhand pitching motion is wonderful to behold: rocking back, kicking his left foot high above his head-higher than any other pitcher in memory-he seems almost, for an instant, to be suspended on strings. Then, in one bewildering blur, he sweeps forward to release the ball...
...least for four Hindu hooligans who rape her one summer evening. The attackers escape, the Indian boy is vindictively jailed on a trumped-up political charge, and peaceful at last, the English girl dies in giving birth to her uncertainly sired child. Author Scott writes with gravity and grace. He has set his scarifying tale within a bloody jungle of Congress Party politicking and imperial British bungling, which he examines informatively and with compassion. He also examines events from every possible viewpoint, successively recounting his story through the eyes of eight widely disparate observers. Even for elusive India, it proves...
IVANOV is the first of the Chekhovian unheroic heroes, who fall not from grace to sin but from enthusiasm to ennui, who do not so much lose their souls as their spirit. John Gielgud's listless acting and direction unfortunately seem infected with a similar malaise...
Natalia Bessmertnova, a slight, dark, fawnlike creature, is a dancer of a wholly different mold. In the title role of Giselle last week, she was all gossamer and grace, a supremely lyrical figure with feathery leaps and arms like ribbons floating in the breeze. Her total involvement, wonderfully reflected in an oval face graced with large, waiflike eyes, lent a touching poignancy to the old story of young love gone astray...
Intalco and Boeing are only two of the manifestations of Pugetopolis-and many Pugetopolitans are now worried about whether, in the process of industrialization, their paradise will be lost. "How can our state grow with grace?" asks Governor Evans. "We have been the beneficiaries of time and space. We have not suffered the silt and smoke of overindustrialization-yet. We have not succeeded in completely obliterating the beauty of our countryside or polluting our waters-yet. But time, which has been on our side, is rapidly running...