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Arpino is responsible for roughly half the works in the large and varied repertory of 36 items-perhaps too large for the company's size (between 38 and 40 dancers). Reflecting Joffrey's scholarly catholic taste, pieces by other choreographers range from delicate snippets of 19th century Danish court-style ballet (Bournonville's William Tell Variations) to an intelligently danced but dramatically muzzy re-creation of Petrouchka, to the somber, erotic psychodrama of Todd Bolender's The Still Point (new with the company this season...
...principle of normalization was first formulated in Denmark and has become part of Danish and Swedish law. Except in extreme cases, a retarded person may not be deprived of his civil rights in either country. Government funds assure him a living standard comparable to that of a typical citizen in his community...
...high drama, nothing beats the weekly "singles" meeting at the Manhattan headquarters of Columbia Records. Into a Danish-modern conference room nervously file a dozen or so highly paid executives, who open their attaché cases and go to work deciding what 45-r.p.m. singles to release that week. Musical careers hang on the outcome. So, in the long run, do the financial fortunes of the company itself. One morning this July the conferees were vigorously debating the merits of three songs in a new LP album when President Clive J. Davis took the floor and picked...
...provincial of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, and a strong Berrigan supporter, suggested that the Delaware statement was in the spirit of the defiance displayed by Denmark's King Christian in World War II: he wore a yellow Star of David when the Nazis ordered Danish Jews to so identify themselves...
That is hardly news; a Danish commission, for example, came to the same conclusion some time ago. But the U.S. report also finds that "persons who hold sexually, socially and politically liberal attitudes generally report more arousal to sexual stimuli" than conservatives. Liberals might be flattered by the report's argument that "a strong response to erotic stimuli requires imagination, the ability to project and sensitivity...