Word: brussels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIVE YEARS by Paul Goodman. 257 pages. Brussel & Brussel...
...Civil Servant. The shape of a United Europe is already evident in the institutions of the Common Market. The cerebral cortex is housed in a new concrete-and-steel nine-story building on Brussel's appropriately named Avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée. Here the European Commission, a nine-man executive, plots the grand strategy and supervises the daily details of the Common Market's operation...
Thus a capacity audience at Brussel's Royal Opera House was introduced to one of the most demented ballets ever staged: Choreographer Maurice Bejart's Such Sweet Thunder, set to music by Duke Ellington. Originally written for Canada's Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Thunder is a 14-part suite obscurely inspired by a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream: "I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder." Ellington's musical rogue's gallery glimpses of Shakespearean heroes and heroines in turn inspired Choreographer Bejart to paste together a 45-minute dance work...