Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wendy Hiller brings Miss Tina quiveringly to life, at first, touchingly timid, in the end, touchingly rash. Stunningly miscast as the Jamesian relic of a more gracious age. Franchise Rosay, with her Gallic accent and facial gestures, seems rooted in some irascible French family film. Maurice Evans elegantly elocutes lines that might better be spoken, but the talk is a smokescreen for a character that isn't there...
...speech to Democratic fund raisers in Washington's National Guard Armory, a flying trip to Manhattan to see Acting United Nations Secretary-General U Thant. He did get to see Broadway's top musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, but otherwise he left the gracious life in the capable hands of his capable wife, Jackie Kennedy...
...Katanga's President-the title he took after formal declaration of the Republic last July-was widely admired by most southern Katangese not only for his stout resistance to the onusiens but for his gracious, smiling manner and for the dignity of his somber grey suits. He is never late for an appointment, often arrives five minutes early, then waits outside, homburg in hand, until the hour. He is no playboy; often, at a conference of African bigwigs. Tshombe will retire to his room with a book while the rest of the boys go out nightclubbing...
Welcomed home by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Poet Laureate John Masefield's twelve-line ode, "On the Return of Our Gracious Sovereign from Africa,"* Queen Elizabeth II returned to England last week from her four-week, 7,000-mile visit to four West African countries. With her the Queen brought some six tons of luggage and gifts, including a baby crocodile, reportedly with divine powers, for Prince Andrew. Behind her she had left a residue of good feeling toward the Crown and Commonwealth-as well as her huband, Prince Philip, who was attending the Tanganyikan independence ceremonies. (Perhaps...
...native drum. Then came a few most unparliamentary hurrahs (with nary a reprimand from the bewigged Speaker), and the "right honorable member for Woodford" slumped into his lifetime front-bench seat. A government spokesman saluted the occasion, and the Loyal Opposition, represented by Hugh Gaitskell himself, continued in gracious kind. Then Sir Winston, in his first words from the floor in six years, muttered with quiet emotion, "I am very grateful to you all." Minutes later, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his customary question-period appearance and began: "Perhaps before answering this question I may be allowed...