Word: graciousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This film makes it official: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor-presumably under pressure of their duties as symbols of Married Love and Gracious Living-have given up acting for entertaining. Or rather, trying to. They display the self-indulgent fecklessness of a couple of rich amateurs hamming it up at the country-club frolic, and with approximately the same results...
...once claimed "It might help running an unfamiliar course. When you don't know the course, you don't know you're supposed to get tired." Besides, this wasn't the first time that a McCurdy coached team had fallen to the Friars. On past occasions, McCurdy, always gracious in defeat, had a ready explanation for the Friars' dominance. "They had the Holy Father out there as well as the team," the retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Army Reserve and, by his own admission, "the greatest living coach in any legal sport," claimed after one setback. After another...
Comic Dick Cavett is a menace. That low-key, gracious approach should fool nobody. He is a cool operator who plans to sweep the American housewife off her feet before she has a chance to sweep the floor. Hosting a new 90-minute daily talk show called This Morn ing on ABC, he has plunged into that grey Sargasso Sea of morning game shows and reruns, and already he's making steady, perceptible waves of laugh ter. There is something vaguely immoral about one-liners at 10:30 a.m., but Cavett has no respect. Amid...
Died. Marion Griffin Zeckendorf, 62, second wife of Manhattan real estate Wheeler-Dealer William Zeckendorf; in the so far inexplicable (clear weather, no apparent mechanical difficulty) crash of an Air France Boeing 707 while landing at the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing all 63 aboard. A gracious Georgia lady who professed never to understand her husband's operations (though some of his properties were in her name), she devoted herself to charity, raising funds for everything from ballet to the A.S.P.C.A...
Swarowsky is scarcely more lovable afterhours. Sometimes he stalks the streets of Vienna, scowling and conducting to himself to avoid greeting passersby. He admits to a great "mania to convince everybody about everything," and many of his outspoken opinions are less than gracious. His hottest public feud is with gifted Opera Conductor Karl Böhm, who, he thinks, has an "impossible" technique and is too lax with singers. Partly because of these traits, partly because of the didacticism of his approach, Swarowsky has never made great headway as a practicing conductor. It is only when he conducts his classes...