Word: gracing
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...learning lend Thy light, To all our work Thy Grace...
...Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of François Boucher, the courtier who painted ceilings with the grace of miniatures; and "1814" by Ernest Meissonier, filled with the pomp of banners, stations, mustaches, and death...
...author seems to take an obscure pride in telling things that other people would have been careful to leave unsaid. He is almost proud of the small slips from grace that filled his boyhood; the tone of the whole thing reminds one of Jean Jacques' "Confessions," Jess startling, of course, but put together with the same intentional candor...
...more, and, at least the President of Harvard University would agree that such an establishment was an approach to the perfect in university administration. Dr. Kirkpatrick can only hope for such cooperation. Could he promise that the faculty, now striding the twin steeds of scholarship and teaching with what grace is possible, would be even beter poised with the third steed of university administration added--then his faculty government might appear equally necessary. And last if he could only match that famous line concerning youth's lack of knowledge, and age's lack of strength, he might convince undergraduates...
...Significance. This not only should be but probably will be one of the celebrated novels of the year. The author's real desire to interest, inform, amuse and move her reader is felt and fulfilled without visible effort. There is wit, grace, fine feeling and a style which, while lively, never begs applause. The people are so real that there will be endless discussion of who is actually who: Sculptor St. George is Sculptor Saint-Gaudens, and so on. If the fabrication of fictitious letters and other personalia are remarkable, the character relations are even more so, especially...