Word: balletomaniac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trails them from town to town, settles many a backstage dispute, writes occasional reviews for British papers (New Statesman, New English Weekly, Manchester Guardian) and turns up persistently at rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several inches too long. Author Haskell identifies himself as a life-long balletomaniac who studied dancing to understand its difficulties. He quarreled with Diaghilev over his last ballets and Diaghilev never forgave him. He describes Diaghilev's weaknesses: his sexual abnormalities, his greed for sweets, his crazy superstitions, his countless inconsistencies. But in the Machiavellian persecutor which Madame Nijinsky portrays Critic Haskell takes...
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