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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both of the Royal's new works, appropriately, were created by Sir Frederick Ashton, the company's director since 1963 and, with Balanchine, one of the world's two finest living ballet choreographers. "If Fred is in the English tradition," says Dame Margot Fonteyn, "that is because he is the one who made it." Like Balanchine, though, Ashton began in the Russian tradition. Born in Ecuador, the son of a British businessman, he began studying ballet at the age of 18. Two years later, he worked with the company of Marie Rambert, for whom he produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballet: In the English Style | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

When Dan Morgan '71, a member of Q-House, heard of the plans, his only response was. "Kirby Wilcox is too much." This general feeling seems to pervade the House. One observant student said, "Kirby is the finest, most conscientious, most brilliant student I've ever seen." Such talk embarrasses Wilcox, a shy lacrosse star from Shelter Island...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: On Spring Weekends and Beer | 5/1/1969 | See Source »

...FINEST minds of this nation almost unanimously agree that deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system is logically and technically indefensible. Thus one might expect any debate of the issue to be an exercise in futility for the AMB'S defenders and an indulgence in verbal overkill for its opponents...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: ABM Again | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

Dorwart faced only 33 batters and held Columbia to just five singles, bringing his record to 3-1. Playing his finest game so far this year, captain John Ignacio smashed three of his team's eight hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moundmen Whip Lions In 6-0 Rout | 4/26/1969 | See Source »

Furthermore, the booklet reprints, from last year's February Negro Digest, Hardin's article entiled "The Uses of the Afro-American Past." This essay, whose title pays homage to Herbert J. Muller's magnificent book, The Uses of the Past, is one of the finest Negro Digest has published...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: On Black Students and Black Studies | 4/24/1969 | See Source »

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