Word: evils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flashing first-scene duet of tall, part-Osage Indian Ballerina Maria Tallchief (the fourth Mrs. Balanchine*) as the Firebird and Francisco Moncion as the Prince brought a touchdown roar from the audience. In the second scene, Balanchine managed to move the evil Kostchei and his 40 demons back & forth diagonally in four groups, so that City Center's scant (40-ft.) stage always seemed full of excitement but never cluttered. Throughout, it was the most stunning ballet production Manhattan balletomanes had seen in many a moon. With the final curtain, the audience set up the kind of clamor that...
Inevitably, the decision provoked some shudders. Could good grow from the fresh, unquiet grave of evil? The U.S. and its postwar Allies had decided that the answer must be yes, if Europe (and all the West) was to have peace, prosperity and freedom. The German who more firmly than any other assured the U.S. that its decision had been wise, its hope not misplaced, was an aging, clear-eyed politician from the wine country along the Rhine: Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, without doubt the most important German since Hitler...
Cadmus hopes against hope that the series will be sold as a group to decorate a church (price: $20,000). "I don't believe," he says wistfully, "that any of my paintings would encourage anyone to sin." As nightmare personifications of evil, the Sins were frightening enough; as pictures, they were merely unpleasant. It looked as if in this case Cadmus had sold his art for a mess of message...
...composed scores of essays and sketches on Japanese life. In the essays prepared for the eyes of Western readers, he remained his adopted country's devoted partisan to the end. Loyally, he painted his adopted country as a peace-loving land menaced by the West. Wrote Hearn: "An evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries in commercial experience . . . that her admirable army and her heroic navy may be doomed to make their...
Over the years, as he recalls them, old "Mac" McCarthy had seen and heard enough to satisfy himself that his childhood decision was right. Traveling through a good part of the world, observing the contrast of rich churches with peasant poverty, shocked by hypocrisy in high places and evil deeds done in religion's name, he finally decided to devote his time and money to combating humanity's yearning to believe and worship. He spent five years writing a 725-page diatribe against Christianity, called Bible, Church and God. Four years ago he organized...