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...Dixon Glen Ridge...
Formed in 1970 by a few members of the Cologne Opera Ballet, Tanz Forum Koln fuses modern dance forms with the classical ballet tradition. The company's repertoire has included pieces by such wellknown choreographers as Glen Tetley, Jose Limon, Hans van Manen and Kurt Jooss. Works by Gray Veredon and Jochen Ulrich, director-choreographers of Tanz Forum Koln, dominate the performances at the Loeb this weekend, hopefully not at the expense of variety. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. $7.95, $5.95 for student rush. Call...
...1950s, a clerk in a department store refused to let me sip from a water fountain, despite my mother's plea that "he's just a little boy." Later, when my family got its first television set, I was entranced by the ads for Glen Echo amusement park. My mother couldn't really explain why she couldn't take me there. The reason, of course, was that Glen Echo did not admit blacks. Nor did many restaurants, movie theaters and other public facilities...
...whole, in fact the town where the author-narrator of An Beal Bocht, O'Coonassa, was born and lived, does stand for all the Gaeltacht of West Ireland that O'Coonassa can see from his "small, lime-white and unhealthy house situated in the corner of the glen": from the bare Rosses and Tory Iland "like a great ship where the sky dips into the sea"-visible out the right hand window-to Connemara and Aranmore, seen out the door, to the left-hand view of the Great Blasket "forbidding as an otherworldly eel, lying languidly on the wavetops...
...water a second through a section called The Narrows at a depth of 12 ft. But the storm that destroyed a vacationland sent 40,000 cu. ft. per sec. through the gap at an incredible depth of 30 ft.-some 320,000 gal. per sec. In the hamlet of Glen Haven, 80% of the buildings were seriously damaged or destroyed. Most of Drake's 200 residents are still missing, and the village remains cut off. From Drake east to the mouth of the canyon, nearly everything has disappeared...