Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer-and upstaged her contemporaries. At the summit of the American theater, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley have a brilliant new competitor. Such names as Hayes, Cornell and Fontanne ring distant on the ear-echoes from another generation. "We've come to the end of gracious ladies in the theater," says Producer Harold S. (Fiorello!) Prince. "Why, I don't know. But this girl Bancroft is the greatest there is. She marks the beginning...
...gracious were the bows, so lavish the assurances of esteem, so charming the exchanges of mutual praise, as Britain's Foreign Secretary arrived in Paris last week that one would think Britain and France were on the best of terms. "There is and must be a special relationship between our two countries," smiled Selwyn Lloyd, and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville reciprocated with murmurs of "profound solidarity," as the two sat down for talks in a gilded salon of the Quai d'Orsay. At the Elysée Palace, where Lloyd extended France's President...
...many outsiders, Sarah Lawrence remains a school of debutantes. This view is encouraged by the fact that Sarah Lawrence's tuition--$1820--is the highest in the nation, and little more than 10 per cent of the student body receive scholarships from the college. The theme of gracious living was emphasized in a recent spread by Harper's Magazine entitled, "Sarah Lawrence: for the Rich, Bright and Beautiful." However, while it is true that the girls are well represented in Eastern social registers, the presence of the debutante contingent seems to leave the atmosphere of Sarah Lawrence unaffected...
...prepared statement, President Pusey declared himself "deeply saddened to learn of the death of Bernard Berenson, a distinguished son of Harvard whose gracious presence and confident taste have greatly influenced art and letters...
Died. Vera von Schuschnigg, 55, gracious, musical Viennese beauty who married Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg by proxy (1938) when he was held incommunicado by the invading Nazis, followed him from one concentration camp to another, until both were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945, came to the U.S., where the ex-Chancellor is now professor of government at St. Louis University; of cancer; in Kirkwood...