Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bestselling (200,000 copies) polemical novel The New Priests, which lampoons the experiments of Paris' young missionary priests. Abbe Georges Michon-neau, pastor of St. Jean near Montmartre, charged De Saint Pierre with throwing "priestly entrails to the pack of dogs who will buy your book and feast on them...
Harvard's team has been following a feast-or-famine pattern for most of the year. In a three-game winning streak the Crimson exploded for 35 runs and collected 46 hits, then was shut out by Army, 1 to 0. The team's most reliable hitter has been first baseman Joe O'Donnell; his average in the EIBL...
...humor (though with much wit), not a thriller (though it might have ben a smashing thriller), not a psychology, lacking in characterization. But finally, An American Dream has immense proportions--almost, one might say, mythic proportions--and the relentless pace of carnivore running hunted through a modern jungle to feast and keep from being feasted upon, to smell, to taste, to explode at last, to be killed and take, hopefully, a few of the enemy with...
...wedding. Like some great infernal machine, the ballet crashes on in a barbaric, sensual ritual. First the bride and her maids, the bridegroom and his companions, each in turn, jump, run, somersault and contort. Then the weeping bride takes leave of her parental home. Finally there is the wedding feast: an obliging married couple warms up the bridal bed into which the shy, self-conscious newlyweds are then tossed by the drinking, brawling guests. Through it all the four soloists and the chorus wail, lament, cry, shout. Timpani boom, cymbals clang, bells ring...
Most successful offerings: Alvin Ailey's Feast of Ashes, a tragic, turbulent story of matriarchal domination; Stuart Hodes's The Abyss, a tale of rape and lost innocence eloquently danced by Lone Isaksen, a young Danish girl who sticks out as the troupe's most promising soloist; Alley's Ariadne, highlighted by a fearsome battle between Theseus and a horde of minotaurs. Tradition was provided by Prima Ballerina Marjorie Tallchief (Skibine's wife and sister of the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief) and the famed Danish dancer Erik Bruhn as guest artist...