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...Bennington, perhaps more than any other college, has the right to present a dance concert for the public. Up in the Vermont hills a lot of intensive training goes on among the students who elect Dance as their major. Daily classes in ballet and modern dance, prolonged study of choreography and performing and among the students, fiercely professional devotion, become routine. The happy result is a group of young dancers who know what they're up to. Every other year during the winter term the best of the Bennington dancers set out on a dance tour of the east coast...
...Common Market. The most commonly accepted diagnosis of Gaullist behavior credits the general with an obsessive but essentially honorable devotion to la grandeur of France. Such a view is entirely too charitable, argues Harold Kaplan in an article in the current New Leader, entitled "The New Cold War." A Bennington College professor now on a year's leave in France, Kaplan presents an interesting and disturbing thesis: "The time has come to face French policy under De Gaulle for what it is-a destructive, divisive, peacebreaking policy that may endanger the world...
Life for Smith is a continuing drama and a continuing ordeal. Teaching, though he has been at it since 1946 (at N.Y.U., Cooper Union, Pratt, Bennington and now Hunter), is still "an exercise in sheer hysteria. I sometimes think I'm going to pass out before I get going." Friends' trials move him deeply. In addition, since a 1961 auto crackup, he has developed a blood disease that causes frequent nosebleeds, and fogging out. What mainly sustains him nowadays is the heady thrill of success, the joy of being called upon to create bigger and more exciting monuments...
Lionel Nowak, Bennington College music professor, owned no sculpture, but when he saw Tony Smith constructing his gangly Gracehoper-a title Smith lifted from Finnegans Wake-he commented, only half in jest, that it was just the thing for his backyard...
Today is a day of mismatches, and even J. Bennington Peers III would be bored with the Ivy contests. Only the Princeton-Colgate game might rouse some interest, and that one for the sole reason that people can get sadistic pleasure from seeing Princeton outclassed for two weeks...