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...told to..." book, explains the crumbling of the Green Bay football dynasty in the late '60's, as seen by Kramer, a then recently-retired Packer lineman and kicking specialist. I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow recounts the embryonic construction of another dynasty, as seen by one of its creator. And Schaap falls easily into the trap of using a parallel style for the latter...
...115th ballet is an evocative tribute to a corner of his own past. Who Cares?, which was given its world premiere by the New York City Ballet last week, is a nostalgic, gently ironic reminder that "Mr. B." spent a few lean years in the '30s as a creator of dance for stage musicals. In Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, which he designed for the 1936 Rodgers and Hart hit, On Your Toes, Balanchine brought a touch of ballet to Broadway. Who Cares? brings back a little bit of old Broadway to ballet...
French Philosopher Henri Bergson identified as laughable "something mechanical incrusted upon the living"-his somewhat pedantic phrase for the essential dualism of life. Civilization, said Bergson, unfolds so rapidly that its creator, man, is hard put to keep up. As a result, both culture and language are full of outdated forms. When man is abruptly made aware of them, he responds with chastened or chastening laughter. Why do yesterday's fashions invariably strike us as comic? Because, Bergson thought, they expose the ludicrousness of all fashion-an effort by a creature, born naked, to wear and animate his wardrobe...
...caricature of the white man's mythical black, the hustling swordsman who alone can bring true satiety to a woman. On the other hand, Brown addresses George in the postscript, too, saying: "You think that your acts have been lies, but you need to realize that your creator is not some white man, but a black brother, a Nigger, a jiveass very much like yourself." Whatever else it does or does not do, Brown's tall tale definitely proves that rippling waters can also run deep...
Hartman, the creator and director of the Urban Field Service (UFS), has been a controversial figure at the GSD. In originating UFS, Hartman faced departmental opposition to the granting of credit to a program that deals strictly with gaining actual field experience. Hartman set up the project so that studentswould be able to apply their classroom skills to some community group that would otherwise receive no such assistance...