Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World in the Evening starts with a racket at a drunken Hollywood party; the sound comes from the hero's fists hammering on the roof of a children's doll house, inside which his wife is committing adultery with a movie actor. The book ends in a New York bar with the hero downing his fifth Martini and saying to his now exwife: "Do you know something . . . I really do forgive myself, from the bottom of my heart...
...Runaway Puritan." After catching her in flagrante delicto in the doll house, Stephen Monk walks out on his wife Jane and into an oncoming truck. While he convalesces at the home of his Quaker foster-aunt outside Philadelphia, his whole life flashbacks before his eyes...
...McIver runs Castle House on a progressive principle, i.e., that patients must have responsibility if they are to show any. He finds it harder to apply this principle in his private life. At 39, his wife Karen is as fresh, and as false, as counterfeit money. A blonde china-doll type, she nurses a badly nicked ego because McIver has been sleeping in a separate room for eight months. His two children are bright as toothpaste ads, but busy Dr. McIver barely knows them...
Pearl Harper is barely five; too young to know more than that her rag doll is stuffed with green paper. John is nine; he knows what the paper is, and has sworn to his dad, just before the capture, not to give away the secret...
...theater trunks is something new and different in ballet. It is danced in modern "classic" style, with clean-cut silhouettes and unwasted movements. It often dares to use "classical" scores by Mozart and Bach. But it avoids telling such long-winded old "classical" ballet tales as the beautiful mechanical doll (Coppelia), the bewitched princess (Sleeping Beauty), or the peasant girl in love with the prince (Giselle). Though it is sometimes called "American" ballet, it pays almost no attention to "Americana." The repertory leans heavily (about 60%) on the choreographic work of Balanchine himself. A typical program might contain his Symphony...