Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in two weeks, the sun shone over London. Out of Buckingham Palace in gilded grace swept the Irish State Coach, bearing Queen Elizabeth II to Parliament. The royal route through St. James's Park was lined by a thousand troops, and the equipage of horses and cavalrymen jingled cheerily between trumpet fanfares. The Queen, acrackle in white silk organza and wrapped in white fox, dismounted and marched up the Royal Staircase past lines of tabarded heralds to the Royal Robing Room. Then, having donned the 18-ft. red velvet train, originally tailored for Queen Victoria...
...illustrate the U.N.'s efforts to control narcotics, and the cast is a U.N. in itself: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, E. G. Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Gilbert Roland, Omar Sharif, Nadja Tiller, Eli Wallach and Princess Grace Kelly...
...beautiful and dutiful, weeps for 30 pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried humans ("Though splendour may grace happiness, virtue only can bestow it"), and produces Poetry with alarming regularity...
Doubles, usually the strong point for Harvard, proved the saving grace for Amherst's prestige. Appleby and Davis dropped the top doubles match to Paul Diamond and Chris Kaufman by the surprising score of 6-2, 6-3. Benjamin and Davis bowed to Alealy and Warner...
...Bust of an Old Man by Durer's predecessor, Martin Schongauer, is a pronounced example of the human quality which we associate with Gothic naturalism Schongauer's work provided Durer with an example of naturalism which united the Flemish realistic tradition with the grace and inventiveness of Gothic drawing. Durer's early work, influenced by this example, abounds in ideas, emotional expression, and vivid Gothic naturalism...