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...million new black voters have registered for this year's election, according to Joseph Madison of the N.A.A.C.P. A Chicago group last month signed up 40,000 new voters, largely by sending vans to the city's unemployment and welfare offices. Says Congressional Delegate Walter Faun troy of Washington, D.C.: "There is more black voter registration than at any time since the Voting Rights Act was passed...
...mixed feelings. In general the JL format of Going to the Dance-relatively brief, tightly focused pieces on specific works or companies- is adequate, but Robbins trails through the book like a wraith. One gets only pieces of a critique: that his masterpieces are Afternoon of a Faun and Dances at a Gathering, that he is often too clever by half, that he is good at finding the moves that enhance young dancers. One finishes the book feeling the need of a real assessment of Robbins partly because he draws such strong, quirky reactions from...
...Town, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof. Yet his first love has always been ballet, and during a career stretching back to 1944, he has created such modern classics as the footloose Fancy Free, the silent Moves and a brilliant gloss on Afternoon of a Faun. Last week at Lincoln Center, in a meeting of two kindred spirits, Robbins came face to face with Gershwin's biggest, most problematic instrumental work, unveiling The Gershwin Concerto, based on the Concerto...
...production focuses on the very characters modern readers of Nicholas Nickleby find to be pasteboard cliches of middle-class sentimentality: noble Nicholas, snow-white Kate, wounded faun Smike?and makes their stodgy virtues real and comprehensible. It renounces the fey modernism of camp; it takes a stand, grows tall in its righteousness, infuses the audience with its passion, brings Dickens back to life not as a carver of curios but as a man who, in George Orwell's phrase, "is generously angry...
Europe as the seducer of American innocence is a theme that has played well at all levels of U.S. fiction, from Hawthorne's The Marble Faun to Erich Segal's latest love story, Man, Woman and Child. As usual, Segal's principal characters are bright, attractive and preppie. Bob Beckwith, Yale '59, is an esteemed professor of statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His wife Sheila, Vassar '60, is a highly valued editor at a university press. The marriage is an ideal balance of temperaments, love, devotion, respect and affection. There are two blossoming...