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Last week Choreographer Balanchine got back to the first order of his artistry: for the first time since he broke his knee on a Paris stage more than 20 years ago, he danced in public. His worshipful City Center audience, the most faithful and fervent in Manhattan, could hardly get enough...
...Billy Graham (TIME, Nov. 14, 1949 et seq.) was well under way with a soul-saving campaign in the Ponce de Leon ballpark fitted out to accommodate more than 20,000 people. With flashing eyes and flailing arms, the well-dressed young (32) successor to Billy Sunday was wringing fervent amens and penitence from his audience night after night. Mankind now stands on the brink of destruction, he warned his listeners. "Unless God sends a great awakening to the world, my two little girls will never see high school...
...beneficiaries of a système majoritaire would be Charles de Gaulle's RPF (Rally of the People of France). Last week at a fervent national council of his party in Paris, complete with the Cross of Lorraine, the V-for-victory sign of World War II, and chants of "De Gaulle to power!", the general proclaimed: "Once again, we shall be called in at moins cinq''-(meaning "five minutes of," the French equivalent of "the eleventh hour"). The Gaullists still believed themselves to be the wave of the future. Some of their former cronies among...
Professional folk singing in the U.S. is mostly the province of a few long-haired purists who rarely get a hearing outside the clubs and recital halls where their small but fervent public gathers. Last week a group of four high-spirited folksters known as the Weavers had succeeded in shouting, twanging and crooning folk singing out of its cloistered corner into the commercial big time...
...trifle absentminded. Riding home on a streetcar to his apartment in Rome that hot July day in 1948, he was as usual too engrossed in a book to keep close watch on his packages. But when he got to his stop and missed them, Professor Levi raised a fervent alarm...