Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William B. Van Lennep '29, curator of the Theatre Collection. The collection spans the history of ballet from its origin in 1581 up to the present. Among the items included are books, prints, drawings, figurines, and a pair of ballet shoes belonging to ballerina Alicia Markova, one of the foremost of our time...
Jones--a designer, producer, and director--is, according to MacLeish, "one of the foremost scenic designers in the country." He has done the designing for Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh," and Alban Berg's opera, "Wozzeck." He has also done "Oedipus Rex," "Macbeth," and "Richard III." Jones began work in designing for color films as early...
Several factors produce this situation--a more hostile and tense situation than exists in Cambridge. Foremost is the sharply contrasting racial makeup of the University and the city, which has given rise to countless "incidents." New Haven is 40 percent Italian, 25 percent Irish, and ten percent Anglo-Saxon. At Yale, the proportion is almost exactly reversed...
...minutes later a repairman came to the rescue and led the gentleman, one of Japan's foremost educators, to his destination, 28 Massachusetts Hall. Murmuring that he had been "misguided," the professor was met by a secretary who handed him a list of appointments. A Crimson Key man was there to see that he didn't wander into any more basements during his brief visit to Harvard...
...sets and lighting, Jerome Robbins' dance sequences are the most entertaining portion of the revue. Ballerina Nora Kaye is fascinating to watch, almost as much for the malevolence of her features as for the brilliance and grace of her dancing. Since Miss Kaye is one of the country's foremost interpretive dancers, however, it's inexplicable why Jerome Robbins has her call out lines like "I need you" in the middle of a rather pretentious ballet scene. Another highly gifted performer, Maria Karnilova is a torrid Latin in Esther, an energetic vulgarity which set two priests next to me muttering...