Word: dame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dame Margot Fonteyn is indisputably a prima ballerina assoluta. The Stuttgart Ballet now ranks among Europe's best dance companies. Its director and chief choreographer, John Cranko, is possibly the reigning master of story ballet. Put them all together and what do you get? What you get, sad to say, is a campy, overripe, overdecorated disaster called Poème de I'Extase, which was given its American première last week at the Metropolitan Opera House...
...native Cincinnatian, Kennedy graduated from Notre Dame in 1955, was soon drafted and sent to Japan. An "entertainment specialist," he directed his Army buddies in such plays as Inherit the Wind and Stalag 17 and after leaving the service, he joined a summer-stock cast of Mr. Roberts. Kennedy next appeared in Chicago as a real-life police reporter with the City News Bureau. "They would have paid me $35 a week," he said, "but I had a college degree...
...Pentecostalist fervor has been growing rapidly. From its beginnings at Duquesne University in 1967, where Wilkerson's book was one of the influences, the movement spread to Notre Dame and Ann Arbor, which have been major forces in it ever since. But there are sizable numbers elsewhere. On Trinity Sunday last week, 450 Catholic Pentecostals held a "Day of Renewal" at St. Theresa Catholic Church in San Diego; this weekend 3,000 Catholic Pentecostals from all over the country are expected to gather at Notre Dame for their annual national conference...
Gardner is the author of The Art of T. S. Eliot and The Divine Poems of John Donne. She has been honored by Queen Elidabeth with the title of "Dame" - the women's equivalent of knighthood...
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME...