Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role in which he falls far short of the dramatist. Things perk up when the stars can get their teeth into something theatrical rather than into each other, as when they go over a scene from Pygmalion. But the stars are not quite wedded to their parts. Unfailingly gracious, Actress Cornell seems too gentle and Actor Aherne seems somehow too jaunty...
Will Beckmann's work live? No doubt, but for an unexpected reason: he commanded the rainbow; his use of color is as tender as a gardener's and as gracious as that of the most subtle housewife. He was less rough than he thought...
...hors d'oeuvres at a cannibal cocktail party. The assorted nonsense will probably irk no one except college faculty wives, who may find the decor irritatingly ludicrous. On an assistant professor's salary, Tony and Janet maintain a duplex Manhattan penthouse, complete with panoramic view and a gracious clutter of antique silver buckets atwirl with champagne...
...lead it. Defense Secretary Gates ordered an investigation of all nontechnical manuals in all the services, with special instructions to blue-pencil any lines that are "lacking in good taste or common sense." Said one Congressman with commendable restraint: "Somehow we've got to switch our attention from gracious living to the missile...
...insights too long over the magnificence of Renaissance Italy to find the modern age other than trifling and tawdry. At book's end he seems to step back into a quattrocento painting like a visitor returning to "a fairer world, where lovely people were taking part in a gracious ceremony, while beyond them stretched harmonious distances line on line to the horizon's edge...