Word: doyen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dance Explosion. The one person most responsible for the dance explosion in America is Nureyev, whose leap through the Iron Curtain 13 years ago triggered a potent curiosity about dance in the public psyche. George Balanchine, doyen of choreographers, pronounced Nureyev oldfashioned, and as usual he was right. For Nureyev immediately set about restoring the male to early 19th century heliocentric prominence. There was nothing middling about his spirit: he was a real-life Albrecht right out of Giselle with a rampaging case of the willies...
...foremost constitutional authorities, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright. A prolific scholar and ambitious lawyer, Wright, despite his relatively youthful age of 45, is by no means overmatched against his twin adversaries Archibald Cox, Harvard law professor and special Watergate prosecutor, and Senator Sam Ervin, the constitutional doyen of the Congress...
Died. Ted Shawn, 80, doyen of modern dance in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Orlando, Fla. Shawn was studying for the ministry when an attack of diphtheria left his legs paralyzed. The prescribed therapy-ballet exercises-worked so well that Shawn decided to "evangelize" through dance. Though the hulking six-footer's early performances were greeted with sneers, Shawn found an ally in the late Ruth St. Denis; they were married in 1914. Together they reigned during the 1920s as the nation's top modern dance team, their repertory drawing heavily on American and ethnic themes...
...Eastern Roman imperial court. Modern diplomacy came with the Renaissance and Reformation. In 1815, Rome's envoys achieved considerable sway in Europe when the Vatican delegate to the Congress of Vienna, Cardinal Consalvi, won a remarkable concession from the Congress: henceforth a papal nuncio (ambassador) would be the doyen of the resident diplomatic corps wherever he was accredited...