Word: graces
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...Sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior crew Michelle Konstadt manned the B-division boat, while skipper Powers and sophomore crew Grace Charles sailed in the C-division...
...night filled with blunder after blunder, the Crimson was lucky to pull out the narrow victory. “We were very fortunate,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “Obviously, we made too many mistakes against a good team, and the saving grace was that we had great character and found a way to win.” The Crimson fell behind late in the first frame and trailed nearly the whole game thanks to its four turnovers. Despite connecting consistently with his sophomore receivers all night, senior hurler Chris Pizzotti drastically underthrew balls...
Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley) was a mere 17 years old when the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) began courting her - not that the ways of courtliness were among His Grace's skill sets. It is hard to imagine, in fact, what commonly recognizable human traits - aside from a passion for his dogs - this dour, emotionally constipated 18th-century man possessed. Essentially, he was doing a deal with Georgiana's mother (Charlotte Rampling), who has assured her that the Spencer women are historically adept at producing male heirs. And the Duke, whose other negative attributes included stupidity, believed...
...thoughts of Prince Charles stray into your mind as you watch His Grace, that's your business. The same is true of Georgiana, who is the ancestor of Princess Di, except, that in the 18th century, her brain cells were not yet completely replaced by air. She conveys a nice sense of an untutored woman trying to embrace the world beyond the bounds of her class, while not being harassed by it - or by the tabloids, which existed in primitive form in those days, too. The Duchess, however, does not insist on such analogies; they're there...
...There is a quality to this book that is often absent from the contemporary novel. Let's call it grace...