Word: essays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with. However, as the time passed, he found himself emotionally (and not just academically) caught up in the phenomenon he was researching. The results were unexpected. What had begun as a survey of the various Eastern religious organizations over the country at large turned into more of an autobiographical essay. Cox moved from bending-over-backwards-to-avoid-bias against what he initially considered to be "inward" and "socially passive" philosophies (this stance, Cox wryly admits, was "tepid, commendably moderate, and, above all, dull"). From this position, he turned to discussing the impact on individuals of the "New Orientalism...
...David Dalquist's photographic essay of the South End with "texts" in the Tuesday, January 10 Crimson vividly demonstrates that The Lampoon has not monopolized the talents of the social Neanderthals in our midst. I have seldom felt that the vagaries of The Crimson warranted my serious or prolonged attention, but Mr. Dalquist's contribution to today's Crimson requires at least a passing comment...
...animals as social creatures that act to ensure group survival. But as Lorenz's work was, it is in tune with its times. In stressing chaotic individualism at the expense of the group. The Langurs of Abu reads like a jungle version of Tom Wolfe's essay on The Me Decade...
...should function like a Food and Drug Administration," she notes, "even if that function is largely futile." What she calls "pop ballet" is a particular target: "Whole repertories (the Stuttgart Ballet) or parts of repertories (the Jeffrey, the Ailey) devoted to slick approximations of the higher article." In an essay called "Selling It," she has very harsh words for the American Ballet Theater, which she accuses of merchandising stars in shoddy productions while neglecting the growth of the company...
...there are many others. In 1973 she attended the World's Professional Ballroom Dancing Championships and discovered Richard and Janet Gleave, a British couple who won the Modern competition. Her admiring chapter on the drag ballet troupe, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, is also a witty essay on sexual stereotypes. Perhaps even more than Balanchine, she loves Fred Astaire. A passage describing his partnership with Ginger Rogers could stand as well for Croce's writing about dance: "Passion-the missing element in just about every 'sexy' duet that has been attempted since- is usually confused...