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Acknowledging a "tragic conflict between life which continually changes and form which fixes it immutable," she responded by improvising, with all the grace she could muster, a series of remarkable lives.

On Sunday afternoons, townspeople took the air in its charming central piazza, graced with a candy-striped loggia, and wended their way up its castello-crested hill.

They bore their years gracefully, faded frescoes appearing out of patchy umber, sienna, or saffron facades, and window ledges bright with coquettish tumbles of geraniums.

When he graced me with his cocky smile, I melted.

Isaac Hecker, the American Transcendentalist and Brook Farm communard who converted in 1844, also ran into official disapproval when his book Aspirations of Nature (1857) appeared to maintain that by nature human beings were good, minimizing the power of original sin, and hence the need for grace, well beyond what his superiors found admissible.

According to Gerard's death certificate, he expired at 11:45 P.M. on June 2, 1926. It was a significant date in American letters, for Gerard would haunt the life and work of Jack Kerouac, sending him on a passionate search for male companions to replace his lost brother--a search that culminated with Neal Cassady and On the Road--and also inspiring the luminous Visions of Gerard, a novel of magical grace and the author's personal favorite.

He himself gracefully offers a milder version of the belief widespread among children that they are foundlings, that they must have sprung from something different from, and better than, their parents: `I am unable to trace any single one of my distinctive traits to my grandparents and still less to my parents ... there were certain disadvantages to being a sport (in the biological sense) in an exclusively sporting environment.' In the biological sense only.

If only he could bring himself to leave the game, gracefully conclude his career by editing Knife and Fork, Oldcastles food magazine, for a couple of years.

The city boasted an opera house, a stock exchange, and a fine university; rows of imposing neoclassical public buildings and private mansions; landscaped green parks with shade trees and polo fields, as well as ample boulevards graced with heroic statues and sparkling fountains.

"She was very young — only just 17 — a tall, rather gawky creature, by no means pretty, but with a face that one remembered," Le Gallienne wrote, adding she had "the shy ungainly grace of a young colt."And while the Modern's outpost in Queens is buzzing with other shows, this one graces the AXA Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.

But it is a graceful epic about a mistake that wasn't, with Junior as a hero who makes it a delight.

To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.Second, grace has very little place these days in football or anything else.

For all his bluster and zeal, however, Dave McGinnis has grace.

Tobin, it seems, was also a man of grace.

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