Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver, two Mennonite conscientious objectors completed, without apparent harmful effects, a six-week test of food that had been exposed to radiation, prepared to join other conscientious objectors in testing foods that have been subjected to greater radiation doses...
...first risk was in dancing at all. It was considered permissible for him to take ballet lessons in 1910, when he was studying for the Methodist ministry at the University of Denver, only because he was learning to walk again after an attack of diphtheria had paralyzed him from the waist down. But when the Denver Post sponsored a "Quatre Arts" ball at which Ted and his teacher performed a decorous waltz, respectable folk-Methodist or not-were horrified. One of Ted's fraternity brothers quietly drew him aside for a brotherly dressing down. "Men," he said with finality...
...dancer and dean of U.S. dancers, Ted Shawn still sees himself as the man of God he started out to be in Denver. "Art, as P. D. Ouspensky said, is the beginning of vision, seeing farther than human sight. And dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. I never go onstage without saying 'Here I am, Lord, use me.' I have had almost a vocation from childhood to be a religious . . . The dance is religion. It is the finest symbol of the activity of God that we have...