Word: beene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everybody seemed to be out of step at the American Ballet Theater. For six months, the company and 77 dancers-soloists and the corps de ballet-have been bickering over salaries and travel expenses.
A sotto voce complaint, in addition, was that Soviet Defector Alexander Godunov had been offered a six-figure salary to dance with the A.B.T.
Or too tall?-there can be no more elegant and reassuring self-help book than Karla Kuskin's Herbert Hated Being Small (Houghton Mifflin; $6.95). Herbert gauges his mini-stature by standing next to his parents, always a mistake. Depressed, he sets out on his own. So does Philomel...
The spirit of Tenniel also hovers over Frogs and the Ballet (Gambit; $9.95). Ever since Disney presented a group of pirouetting alligators in Fantasia, reptiles have been as comfortable onstage as they are in the swamp. The Muppets are further evidence, bolstered by Donald Elliott's informative guidebook and...
Ever since Christianity first reached it 1,100 years ago, the Ukraine has been strongly religious. Located southwest of Moscow, the region, with a population of 50 million, is agriculturally rich and deeply nationalist. In the 1930s Stalin all but crushed the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church and in 1946 expunged...