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...rare, eight-week appearance by Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, considered the finest classical troupe in the world. No other company in this century has produced talent as profligately as the Kirov, and certainly no foreign company has had so strong an influence on American dance. Pavlova, whose ceaseless touring virtually introduced ballet to the U.S.; Balanchine, creator of many of this century's choreographic masterpieces; Nureyev and Makarova, who set new standards for classical style; Baryshnikov, who is probably the greatest male dancer since Nijinsky and is in the process of turning the American Ballet Theater into...
...more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction without striking a mother lode. He is a good writer with a big theme: being black in America. By now every honest citizen should know that racism is a national birth defect, which, in the absence of a cure, requires ceaseless applications of justice. This cry is implicit in Williams' work, though most readers have tired of hearing it. The result is that the author has gained a reputation as best known for being neglected...
...honor. Born at a bad time, in a worse place, and raised by a middle-class family that had little use for writers. Kafka spent his life floundering in a morass of guilt and self-hatred. Never quite convinced of his right to exist, he wore himself down with ceaseless self-dissection, suffocated in an office job the talent he knew he had, and often tried to sabotage his most precious relationships. Although he never formally committed suicide-a failure he gloated over with particular relish--he quite possibly had a hand in bringing on the tuberculosis that killed...
...crowning cultural achievements of the century. Too many critics engage in the effortless reductionism which labels all T.V. evil. But even in the truly crummy stuff, the medium has an attraction, one we are not likely to shake soon. So between the ceaseless rhetoric against the sinister box and a national willingness to sit and watch, one can see a strange symbiosis...
...year dragged on, one of the main causes of Poland's resentment of the government was the ceaseless, wearying, frustrating day-to-day struggle to find enough food, clothing and staples. A report, drawn from a number of TIME correspondents, on what the Poles have faced...