Word: berge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...career performing this legacy, but fresh material keeps coming. Two years ago, Peter Martins drew on her restraint and musicianship in a delicate work, Rossini Quartets. Last week at the New York City Ballet, Jerome Robbins weighed in with a really fat part. In Memory of . . . , set to Alban Berg's elegiac Violin Concerto, is a highly dramatic work, more openly emotional than Robbins usually allows himself to be. In the role of a dying girl, Farrell adds another heroine to her gallery of lost ladies...
...Berg wrote his concerto in 1935 after the death of Manon Gropius, the beloved daughter of his friend Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. The girl died at 19 of polio and the composer dedicated the work "to the memory of an angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves...
...JOHN C. BERG, a Government graduate student, wasn't just kicked out of Harvard. He was sent to jail for nine months. After release from prison, he drove a laundry truck. When he returned to campus, administrators took him to court on trespassing charges, for which he was fined...
Hemphill and Berg were but two of 63 students forced to leave Harvard because the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) determined they had abridged the rights of free speech at the University...
Another suspect in the Berg case died in a shoot-out with federal agents near Seattle in December. But Pierce's year as a fugitive ended quietly one night last week when several dozen agents surrounded him in Rossville, Ga. When he was apprehended, Pierce was sporting two pistols in his belt and a derringer in one pocket. Police found automatic weapons, a crossbow and arrows, fragmentation grenades and a pipe bomb in the van he was driving. Now serving the two-year term for counterfeiting in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Pierce also faces questioning in murder and armed...