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...women's tennis and squash teams will start their respective seasons this year across the river in their new place, the Murr Center, which officially opened this May. Next to Soldiers' Field and in front of the Bright Hockey Rink at the site of to old Carey Cage and Varsity Club, the state-of-the-art, three -story Murr Center puts Harvard on the map for having top-quality squash and indoor tennis facilities...
...state-of-the-art weight room with all new nautilus and cardio vascular machines. This is a enormous step up from the cramped weightroom across the way at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center, where varsity athletes were forced to move their work outs to when the Carey Cage was torn down two years ago. There is even an office for Strength and Conditioning Coach Dom Sardo...
...most enduring contribution to the American musical. But classical dance was his true love, and in 1969 he turned his back on the commercial theater to devote himself solely to George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, for which he made a string of masterpieces--among them The Cage, Afternoon of a Faun, The Goldberg Variations and, above all, Dances at a Gathering, an hour-long garland of sometimes sentimental, sometimes intensely romantic dances set to music of Chopin--that secured his standing as America's first great native-born ballet choreographer...
...early ballets, Robbins favored clear-cut dramatic situations. "What really interests me," he said in 1958, "is the conduct of man, the rites he performs to face the mysteries of life." The Cage portrays a tribe of ferocious, insect-like women who kill the men with whom they mate; in Afternoon of a Faun, two dancers meet in a studio for a sensuous yet self-absorbed encounter that ends in an oddly tentative kiss. Later, Robbins adopted the plotless style of Balanchine, his mentor and idol, firmly denying that his new works were "about" anything but movement and music. Dancegoers...
...terms, meaning no personal questions. Though his homosexuality was an open secret, he never discussed it in public, going so far in 1951 as to become engaged to the ballerina Nora Kaye. (They never married. Interestingly, he cast her as the novice man killer in The Cage.) It took a subpoena to get him to talk about his private life: he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 about his involvement with a communist group of the '40s, naming eight other party members. "I feel I'm doing the right thing as an American," he explained...