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Blair's blend of precision and poetry is clearly apparent in his restaging of Giselle, the tragedy of a lovelorn Rhineland village maiden betrayed by a slumming nobleman. In other versions, Giselle frequently seemed to be a compendium of everything that is unreal and artificial about the art. As danced by Ballet Theater, this 19th century classic had a touch more of naturalism than never-never; the lead roles were performed with relaxed grace by Carla Fracci, on loan from the La Scala Opera Ballet, and Denmark's Erik Bruhn, still the supreme stylist among the world...
Simplistic to the point of demagoguery, his rhetoric is not so much overtly racist as atavistic. His speeches are a scattershot us-folks compendium of conservative complaints against the Federal Government, both major parties, bums, beatniks and Vietniks, rioters (meaning Negroes), intellectuals and Communists. With bantam-cock posture and frequent billingsgate phrases, he portentously appeals to patriotism, law and order, individual liberty, states' rights and the safety of the past. He is a pugnacious orator-a kind of ham-hock Goldwater-and one of the most effective stump speakers of the 1968 campaign...
Madame Blavatsky's doctrine is a very strange and stringent creed, highly moral despite her own aberrations, bizarre but engrossing as a compendium of comparative religion. Although H.P.B. quoted knowingly and relevantly from such ancient tracts as the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Chaldean Kabalah, her main sources turned out to be 1) revelations from a secret inner circle of Eastern arahats ("masters of esoteric philosophy"), with whom she may have communicated by telepathy, and 2) "secret portions of the Book of Dzyan," a work so highly classified that only Madame Blavatsky ever heard of it. Also...
...information about the vast, xenophobic country, but a lot of patient plodding and unusual methods as well. His persistence paid off, and the result, Nagel's Encyclopedia Guide to China, was published in French last year and has just appeared in an English translation. A 1,504-page compendium of hard-to-come-by information on China, it should be a delight both for China-watchers and for general readers who want to shell out $19.95 for a vicarious trip...
Last week, the Harvard Policy Committee approved its "Report on the Houses," which was essentially a compendium of the perennial complaints about the House system. It also contained suggestions for improving the Houses, but the HPC emphasized that these were not definite proposals, merely a "platform for discussion." As such, the report means little, but it should remind the Administration that the present House system is not universally popular...