Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Cherubim and seraphim were sometimes interchangeable. The traditional pattern for both consisted of a head, hands, feet and six wings-one pair pointing down, one pair up, and the third pair spread to fly. It was a formula that could achieve a hierarchic majesty-no angelic being radiates more effortless authority than the mosaic cherub in St. Mark's in Venice, unfurling his blue wings against a blaze of gold mosaic. In the general humanization of angels during the Renaissance, the cherub's presence quickly succumbed. He became crossed with the amoretti, or baby cupids, of antiquity...
...Effortless. Flip eventually traded his khakis for a bellhop's uniform at San Francisco's Manor Plaza Hotel, where he made his nightclub debut playing a drunk. Soon he was hustling laughs in California saloons and slowly filling a loose-leaf notebook (which he still keeps) with his observations on comedy. Cardinal tenets in the Wilson canon: "Be interesting, be impassive, be effortless." Above all: "Make them remember Flip Wilson as a self-confident man of the world, projecting an 'I Don't Care If You Laugh' attitude...
...desert." Bogie shrugs. "I was misinformed.") As Journalist David Halberstam, 36, puts it: "We admired people who fought the good fight against odds-and kept at it." We did not care so much what the good fight was, so long as it was waged with effortless style and nonchalance. While we could be embarrassingly sentimental, we were, paradoxically, distressed at open emotion. For us, coolness was all. Like Holden Caulfield, the confused but knowing teen-age protagonist of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye-the novel that became the decade's literary touchstone-we detested anything that...
...Anthony Dowell, 26. They work together as often as Nureyev and Fonteyn but could hardly be more different in style. For Nureyev's lynxlike power and dramatic presence, Dowell, who greatly resembles the Royal Danish Ballet's Erik Bruhn, substitutes the cool grace and the effortless movement of a danseur noble. Compared with Fonteyn's magical feminine magnetism, Sibley seems shy, vulnerable and distant. But she moves in such harmony with Dowell that they could be brother and sister, trained together from the cradle...
...cast of Daniel is more uneven, but again one singer stands out. His name is Lawrence Bakst, and he possesses one of the most attractive and effortless tenor voices around. It would be good to hear him more often in the Cambridge area. The other lead singers were generally effective, with Chalyce Brown an especially striking Queen. The chorus also sang well, but their acting was only to varying degrees appropriate. The entrance of the Queen's seven attendants, all smiling like airline stewardesses, was more appropriate to a Miss America pageant than a medieval pageant-opera...