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Since Noverre. The fruits of his Stuttgart efforts first appeared on the international scene at last year's Edinburgh Festival, where his achievement was hailed as "staggering" and "beyond praise." Yet for all the lavish encomiums, Cranko is the first to admit that he and his relatively small company still need five or more years of maturing before they are ready to lay claim to the authentic "Stuttgart style" label some critics have already begun to discuss in glowing, enthusiastic terms. But one thing is already certain: not since the city's celebrated Ballet Reformer Jean-Georges Noverre...
Swelling of the Sea. Owen narrowly escaped death many times. One night, he fell into a well, suffering a concussion. He was sent to a hospital in Edinburgh, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, who read Owen's poems and encouraged him. Owen left the hospital convinced of his profession. "I go out of this year a poet, my dear mother, as which I did not enter it. I feel the great swelling of the open sea taking my galleon." Friends tried to get him a job in London, but Owen decided to return to the front. He believed that...
YIELD? Indiana spent nine years studying art, right through a fellowship to the University of Edinburgh. Nevertheless, he believes that art should not demand head-scratching analysis. His esthetic is frankly skin-deep, but "its comprehension can be as immediate as a crucifixion." So can his emblems, during these times of integration struggles, that proclaim YIELD BROTHER. His newest work, a diptych called A Mother Is a Mother and A Father Is a Father, returns to the figure, shows a barefoot man in hat and overcoat and a disheveled, barebreasted, scarlet-coated woman, each getting out of a Model...
Their Liverpoodle hairdos looking even doggier than ever in dinner jackets (three rented, one owner-worn), The Beatles were all poshed up for a fancy do at London's Empire Ballroom. Also present for the loudest cheers of the evening: the Duke of Edinburgh, who struck an I-want-to-hold-your-hand pose with Ringo while flashbulbs plopped like jelly beans. Then the talk turned to books. "I'll swap you one of mine for one of yours," said Author Philip (Seabirds in Southern Waters) to Author John Lennon (In His Own Write). Gulped Lennon: "Surely...
Born. To her Majesty Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, 37, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and'Northern Ireland, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, 42, Duke of Edinburgh: their fourth child, third son (third in line to the succession); in Buckingham Palace; an event that sent a 41-gun salute echoing across London, spliced Royal Navy mainbraces the world over, brought forth one of Poet Laureate John Masefield's instant odes, bidding...