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Director Balanchine's European advisers clucked when he scheduled jazzy, lowbrow Pied Piper for decorous Barcelona. But the Spaniards gustily swallowed every ounce of humor. Jerome Robbins' controversial The Cage was temporarily banned in The Hague because of its unusual theme of spiderlike viricide, but few Dutch hairs were turned when it was finally performed. Audiences almost everywhere agreed that one ballet was tops: oldfashioned, toe-tipping Swan Lake...
Though old and exiled, Maria Montessori continued to preach. She wandered to Barcelona, where she had to be rescued by a British cruiser during the civil war. She went to India, where she was interned as an enemy alien. And she went to The Netherlands, where she set up a new training center. Wherever she went, her message was always the same. "You must fight for the rights of the child," she would exclaim, and hundreds of educators were still inspired to take...
...December 1936, a 33-year-old Englishman named Eric Blair arrived in Barcelona to have a look at Spain's civil war and write some pieces about it. A radical in politics and an antiFascist, he decided to fight instead, and enlisted in a militia outfit. Seven months later, badly used up and sporting the scars of a near-fatal bullet hole through his neck, he went back to England and wrote a book about his experience. It was not a popular book because it was antiCommunist, and the fashion then was to cheer the Communist-controlled "Popular Front...
...Deeper Wound. The improbable chance caught up with Orwell when a sniper winged him. But for a man of his intense integrity the deeper wound came when he went back to Barcelona on sick leave. To his horror he discovered that the Communists, now firmly in the saddle, considered him a Fascist because he had served in a non-Communist unit. Faced with arrest, he had to sleep in the streets, found himself a criminal in the country he had come to fight for. His disgust exceeding his fear, Orwell crossed the border into France, wrote what is still...
...completely so back home. Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (C.I.O.), no friend of Franco Spain, expressed his protest against the Barcelona engagement by resigning from City Center's board of directors...