Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left there, while the other girls smiled and pulled their sweaters down and wondered what the awkward little newcomer was doing in the drama class. When the teacher came in, she asked each girl in turn to say why she wanted to act. "Well, it's better than ballet," one saucy subdeb said, and another replied: "Mother thinks it will give me poise." When the question was put to the girl in the corner, she lifted her quiet grey eyes to the teacher's face and said simply: "It's my life...
...three summers in a row she ran off with almost all the best parts. "At night I dreamed about being a great star like Bernhardt," she says. Nor was Bernhardt enough in those days; she also intended to be Pavlova. Her family had taken her to the Ballet Russe. "When Eglevsky leaped, I used to shriek the way other little girls did at Sinatra...
Encased in the wax forms is the same magic world of ballet dancers, women bathing and race track studies of jockeys and thoroughbreds that Degas made famous with his paintings. But the studies are far from being ancient relics from th past. The wax figurines by their very defects-the mark of being studio studies their unfinished surfaces, even the thumb prints left by Degas' nervous, racing hands as he worked-gain a sense of startling immediacy...
...doubted his own results wrote a friend at the time: "I never seem to achieve anything with my blasted sculpture." He often journeyed to the Hébrard Foundry on the outskirts of Paris to pick up pointers. In his lifetime, he exhibited only one statue, an awkward ballet rat dressed in a real gauze tutu and hair ribbon. But even this and a few other waxworks caused his friend Renoir to exclaim: "Why, Degas is the greatest living sculptor." Degas was not so sure, once remarked: "To be survived by sculpture in bronze-what a responsibility! Bronze...
...treated as a social leper ("I acted in the Institute and Hasty Pudding plays at Harvard, dressed as a leading lady and a ballet dancer"), and Boston paid its respects to the "imported article," as he once tagged himself, by offering him the Harvard philosophy professorship which he held with distinction from 1907 to 1912. But he always sounded as if he wanted his Greek gods to bomb the place. He fumes to William James: "I wonder if you realize the years of suppressed irritation which I have past in the midst of an unintelligible, sanctimonious and often disingenuous Protestantism...