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To avant-gardists of the modern dance, Martha Graham has long been the Holy Acrobat. But when the State Department began sending her off on tour as an official U.S. dancer, the old esoterica was sadly diminished. Offended by the bourgeois applause, ultras in the Graham cult started casting about...
He was born of rich bourgeois parents with a passion for the arts, at 20 published his first volume of poetry, La Lampe d'Aladin. Its success plunged the reedy young poet into the world of Proust, Picasso, Diaghilev and Stravinsky. Many give him credit for scattering ideas in...
Cocteau never stopped trying to shock the bourgeois out of their lethargy, and complained when they grew increasingly unshockable. "I have never caused scandal without premeditation," he said. "I deem it indispensable." Eight years ago, this determined, dedicated enfant terrible applied to the stodgy, conservative French Academy. "Since it is...
After seven months in official disgrace, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko was back in print last week. Spread over five pages of the Communist literary monthly Yunost (Youth) were four poems by the embattled hero of Russia's younger generation, along with a photograph of the rebel in bourgeois tie...
(6 of 10) of the new propaganda campaign are weird. In recent months, newspapers and magazines have rejoiced over the behavior of the "good 8th Company on Nanking Road," an army detachment on garrison duty in the heart of wicked Shanghai. These heroes have preserved their Communist purity for 14...