Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group, created by Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, 52, onetime soloist and ballet master at the Bolshoi, is only partially concerned with true folk dancing. In the company's history of 160 works are a generous sprinkling of what Moiseyev calls "popular ballets"-works that express contemporary themes in the casual movements of everyday life, a fusion reminiscent of the effect U.S. Choreographer Jerome Robbins achieves in such works as Fancy Free. Even in the straight folk dances Choreographer Moiseyev prunes and shapes his material to gain dramatic continuity and a clearly defined dance line. Says he: "We do not merely...
TOGETHER AGAIN, gushed the Daily Express, IS IT GOODBYE AGAIN? asked the Daily Mirror. To Londoners, the boldface heads and bolder prose meant one thing: while Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were paying a state visit to The Netherlands, tight-lipped Group Captain Peter Townsend, 43, at the end of his 17-month, 60,000-mile world tour, had driven in his green Rover to Clarence House, residence of Princess Margaret, 27. While hundreds milled around outside, the two chatted, sipped tea, then left separately after nearly three hours-he to a rented flat, she, beaming, to a movie premiere...
...scientist is likely also to be an ethical purist. For what never exists in the laboratory, what Robert Oppenheimer discovered with a great sense of shock in the world outside, is 'sin.' We may understand 'sin' to express the way in which the evil mingles with the good in life, the way in which the noblest efforts of man can somehow become entangled in moral catastrophe. This 'sin' is not to be found under the microscope...
RUSSIAN TRAVEL BOOM will attract some 4,000 Americans to U.S.S.R. this year (v. 2,500 in 1957), and Russians plan to send first large tourist parties to U.S. American Express will open Moscow office, station first full-time U.S. travel agent there since World...
Among those on Allen's list of O'Brian's pet hates: Arthur Godfrey ("O'Brian will drag Godfrey's name into print for no other reason than to express contempt"), Allen's own rival Sunday-night Host Ed Sullivan ("His hatred of Sullivan is so pronounced that he cannot even bring himself to refer to his hour as a 'program' "), Comedian Jackie Gleason ("Initially, O'Brian praised Gleason. Eventually, he attacked him, at last so rudely that the two almost came to blows one night in a restaurant...