Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misread by both Southern racists and Northern liberals. To the grasseaters of rural Georgia he was a "race-mixer" and worse; former governor Eugene Talmadge referred to him as "Rastus McGill." To the liberals he was the South's single beacon of rationality; they were apt to overlook his claim that "this was never a question of being for integration or against...
...last piece, "Epilogue, or having read the book," the program notes claim to show that "the final definition of dance is the ultimate freedom of the imagination." While this offering is the most amusing, and the most gimmicky (featuring a neon-lit strip-tease in which Miss Crouse and Mr. Kemper remove their white gloves, socks, and hairbands) it is also the most controlled. Lighting, movement and music are in close harmony, while forcing a consciousness of each medium individually as light is made to dance, dancers to glow, and the music plays to the dictates of either...
...there is in any event enough to do with our own souls, our own institutions and society. We are to Dr. King after all as the mill owner's sister was to Gandhi--not guilty of the faults of his adversaries, but also not able to claim his virtues...
...passages buoyed by neither wisdom nor sound (I moved to dreams unpeopled, but birded"). There exists then no poem but only favored portions; there is no totality to like or dislike, certainly none to analyze. Something is perversely appealing about this nonchalance, for too often here writers or directors claim integrity for works which have none, thereby forcing an appraisal which assumes precisely what they are trying to achieve and is inaccurate or confused to the extent that the assumption is. Still, to beg of the responsibility of proper formulations is to foreswear the possibility of creating more than suggestive...
...minions puts it, France in the arts is still capable of "inventing the future." The proof is uphill work, for (non-French) authorities agree that, while Paris blazed the trails prior to World War II, since then the leadership has migrated across the Atlantic. Nonetheless, France can still claim a few pioneers in the realm of geometric art (see color opposite...