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...thing is certain: since Italian Dancer Paolo Bortoluzzi left Maurice Béjart's Brussels-based Ballet of the Twentieth Century to join the American Ballet Theater in June, he has caused more excitement in the U.S. than any male dancer since Rudolf Nureyev leaped through the Iron Curtain...
...search for cures for the myriad forms of cancer has taken U.S. researchers to many countries. Now, it is taking them through the Iron Curtain. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot Richardson announced last week that U.S. and Soviet scientists will exchange anticancer drugs so that each drug may be subjected to full clinical tests in the other's country. As a first step in carrying out an agreement reached during President Nixon's recent visit to Moscow, the Soviets will send the U.S. three drugs, which they have been using to treat cancers of certain white blood...
...from exhibition matches and as chess coach of Locomotiv, a railway-union sports club, is one of the highest in the Soviet Union. Despite these rewards, Spassky has refused to join the Communist Party. "If Boris were a writer or a composer," says one grand master from an Iron Curtain country, "he'd be in jail for anti-Soviet thinking. He is a freethinking man in many ways." Some of his freest thoughts are about chess. "I would be the happiest man alive if I were no longer world champion," says Boris. "Since I won the title my whole life...
...tough opera," said Davies after the première-at which, however, there were twelve curtain calls and no cries of "Rubbish!" "I was pleased that the people listened to it patiently. It will benefit from repeated hearings." Conductor Downes agreed that the score was "murderously difficult" and saw no need to delay a verdict. "This is musical theater at its best, a great step forward to the opera of the future," he said. "I cannot recall a similarly favorable reception to a new opera in Britain...
...identities, chance meetings, characters hiding beneath tables and inside closets, young innocents seeking thrills and happiness, a pig-headed miser trying to foil them, and minor characters of vast experience and questionable virtue. What the play point-blank suggests to the audience, in the moral pronounced before the final curtain, is that we should all free ourselves for some adventure in life. And with the small-town good sense that is so embarassing but so affecting in Our Town. Thornton Wilder recommends just enough excitement to keep us from longing unhappily when we are sitting quietly at home...