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...beautiful sweeping extensions and faultless turns that always marked her dancing were brilliant, but there was, in addition, an increased elevation and a new sense of freedom. In a pas de deaux with Ted Kivitt, she stepped majestically on point, released his hand and poised in an arabesque that lingered on and on, as if there were magnets concealed in her toe shoes...
...BLACK DEATH: 1347 by George Deaux. 229 pages. Weybright & Talley...
Partly for this reason, neither of these new histories is satisfactory. Each uses the same contemporary accounts, though each author clearly senses their inadequacy. Deaux, a sometime novelist who now teaches English at Temple University, is useful only for the material borrowed from the past between quotation marks (including Petrarch's moving account of the death of his love, Laura, struck down by the plague). Author Zeigler a former British diplomat confronted with the numbness induced by the contemplation of too much death, simply dives into his papers and surfaces with another forty facts...
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