Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know the duke's face when he sees those envelopes that hold bills!" winced the Duchess of Windsor, 69. She does, and so on a visit to Manhattan, Her Grace, who was enshrined in the Fashion Hall of Fame seven years ago, reported that she's been skimping on the haute couture lately. "That navy blue coat I wore the other day is two years old," she sighed. "When my maid packed my bags, she said, 'Madame, some of these evening dresses have gone to Palm Beach with you three times.' I'm hoping nobody...
...others. They may also lead to a more realistic, and somewhat more abstract, conception of God. "God will be seen as the order in which life takes on meaning, as being, as the source of creativity," suggests Langdon Gilkey. "The old-fashioned personal God who merely judges, gives grace and speaks to us in prayer, is, after all, a pretty feeble God." Gilkey does not deny the omnipotence of God, nor undervalue personal language about God as a means of prayer and worship. But he argues that Christianity must go on escaping from its too-strictly anthropomorphic past, and still...
...liberal crusader has assured him a respectful hearing from foreign governments and segments of American society that had discredited the Administration's motives in Viet Nam. As for Humphrey, he has risen to the challenge with all the old gusto and with new-found gravity and grace...
...eleven-year-old girl named Grace Bedell had written, saucily suggesting that "if you will let your whiskers grow, you would look a great deal better, for your face is so thin." Bemused by the note, Republican Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln wrote back to Grace in October 1860: "As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?" Affection or not, Lincoln grew the beard and won the election. His note to Grace survived through three generations in her family, until...
John Lithgow and James Paul's Histoire du Soldat is witty, charming, visually engaging--everything that Trouble is not. Stravinsky's score is a minor classic and the seven-piece ensemble plays with precision and grace. The English text by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black occasionally becomes more childish than childlike in its rhyming, but it captures the spirit of the original Russian folk tale more closely than the French text of C.F. Ramuz...