Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With certain exceptions, the Soviet authorities translate nothing that does not serve a utilitarian or propaganda purpose. Two big hits in Moscow were The Quiet American, by Graham Greene, and The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway. Mr. Greene's novel attacked colonialism and is profoundly anti-American in a subtle and effective way, and the Hemingway book shows what happens to an old fisherman in a bourgeois society who does not have social security...
They were all on hand last week-the critics and choreographers, the dancers, designers and devoted fans-to greet the tiny woman with the haunting eyes and the New England Gothic face. After three years, partly spent touring abroad. Dancer Martha Graham had returned with her ballet company to perform in Manhattan, bringing with her a satchelful of Graham favorites and two new works: a sophisticated sexual romp called Embattled Garden and an evening-length ballet titled Clytemnestra, the most ambitious effort in years by the priestess of modern dance...
...mone-happy stranger as the disturbed protagonists. In style it was light but pricked with wryly ironic wit. Clytemnestra, with a grindingly dissonant score by Egyptian Composer Halim El-Dabh, was a more impressive work and far more complex. Both its power and its tortuous complexities derived from Choreographer Graham's technique of unfolding the story as a memory of past events sounding shrilly in the echo chamber of Clytemnestra's mind. In four acts, Graham introduced Clytemnestra in Hades, shifted back in time to Clytemnestra's vision of the fate that had led to her murder...
HAROLD E. GRAHAM Camden...
...organizing, topped by ground-breaking ceremonies with a brass band from the U.S.A.F.'s 41st Air Division. For the full-scale Tokyo revival Jackson is organizing along with the new church, he plans to spend $200,000 in advertising and to round up big-name speakers, including Billy Graham. "We want the best of everything on this program," says Missionary Jackson. "After all, it's the biggest city in the world, and the Lord deserves the best...