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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indicated that it was considerably more than that. Young Russian dancers, ballet students and just plain fans crowded to the stage at evening's end and clapped until the lights were turned off. One source of amazement to the Russians, accustomed to illustrious but superannuated dancers loath to abandon the footlights, was the extreme youth of the Balanchine company: the youngest boy is 15, and there are four girls under 17, accompanied by their mothers. "Balanchine likes them young," explained an American to the curious. "They're more pliable...
Targets & Practices. The social kiss requires a behavioral code of its own. Men who once marched forward into cocktail parties with abandon, hands outstretched and mouths dry, now find themselves skulking around doorways, trying to remember whom to kiss and whom not to (skip the wife's slinky onetime roommate, don't forget the host's plain sister). General rule is to leave the initiative to the woman. The man's problem is to be ready for a kiss, but not so far committed that he cannot smoothly recover if he is offered only a hand...
...television one afternoon last week, De Gaulle warned that unless he got the massive support he wanted, he might abandon France to the political and economic disarray from which he had rescued it in 1958. Cried De Gaulle: "The weight and influence of France, so recently considered the 'sick man of Europe,' are recognized today throughout the world!" Taking personal credit-with good reason-for France's present political stability, sound money and favorable trade balance, he said: "For myself, each yes that you give me will be proof of your confidence and your encouragement...
...social turbulence. Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger of Paderborn, one of Germany's most articulate advocates of change in the church, argues that Catholicism has finally come to the "end of the Constantinian era." In a world of permanent revolution, he argues, the church must think in universal terms and abandon a number of concepts that governed its past. Among these are the belief that the alliance of temporal and spiritual powers is "natural," the rigid juridical view of the church derived from Roman law, the unduly abstract understanding of man's nature derived from scholastic thought, the acceptance...
Reston stressed again and again that the United States must abandon its outmoded habits and bring itself up to data. On this point, he cited the following...