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...rest of the Peanuts crew that readers who would not sit still for a sermon readily devour the sermon-like cartoons. Some 60 million people follow the strip in 700 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada and 71 abroad. Peanuts is translated into a dozen languages, from Danish (in which the title becomes Little Radishes) to Spanish to Japanese. Schulz's theology has even merited a solemn book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, in which Divinity Student Robert Short has found the strip filled with profound Christian understanding (TIME...
Most successful offerings: Alvin Ailey's Feast of Ashes, a tragic, turbulent story of matriarchal domination; Stuart Hodes's The Abyss, a tale of rape and lost innocence eloquently danced by Lone Isaksen, a young Danish girl who sticks out as the troupe's most promising soloist; Alley's Ariadne, highlighted by a fearsome battle between Theseus and a horde of minotaurs. Tradition was provided by Prima Ballerina Marjorie Tallchief (Skibine's wife and sister of the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief) and the famed Danish dancer Erik Bruhn as guest artist...
...word is cat in English. In Danish and Dutch it is kat, in Swedish katt, in German katze, in French chat, in Spanish and Portuguese gato, in Italian gatto, in Russian kot, and in Gaelic cat. Such striking linguistic similarities, which occur profusely throughout the Babel of the world, defy coincidence. They suggest that someone who knows one language need never walk blindfold through the labyrinth of a related tongue...
...There are 18 professional and 200 semiprofessional ballet companies in the country, two of which-Balanchine's New York City Ballet and the American Ballet Theater-are rated among the best in the world. Their chief international competition-Russia's Kirov and Bolshoi, Denmark's Royal Danish and Britain's Royal Ballet-consistently play to sellout audiences during their extensive U.S. tours...
...filled with horseback riding, shuffleboard, pingpong, and swimming in summer-part of the famous Noordwijk Beach is reserved for the hotel. Language barriers go down fast. A Swedish boy at Skansebo −one of Denmark's five children's hotels −learned fluent French and accentless Danish (very difficult for a Swede) on a single summer holiday...