Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martha Graham still has a horror of an indifferent crowd. "I'd rather," she says, "have them against me." Last week her modern dance troupe opened on Broadway for their annual two-week season. After the curtain rose on Phaedra, the first of two new works, there was not an indifferent eye in the house...
Phaedra is, says Graham candidly, "a phantasmagoria of desire." The dance tells the story of Phaedra (danced by Graham herself), who is cursed by Aphrodite with an unnatural lust for her stepson Hippolytus. The spectator is left in no doubt about the nature of her passion-Hippolytus is first seen as only a pair of spotlighted, near-naked loins. Frenzied when Hippolytus rejects her advances, she tells his father that the youth had raped her, and the dance's high point is the visionary enactment of this lie in all the vividness of Phaedra's inflamed imagination...
After the folksinging, freshmen and their dates can go to the Union where Gordie Main and the Mainiacs will blast twist music while George Graham and his band purr "mood" music nearby...
Henry Fellowships for advanced study at either Oxford or Cambridge have been awarded to Louis R. Cohen '62 of Eliot House and Glencoe, Ill., and to Graham R. Stellwagon '62 of Dunster House and West Chester...
...DAVID R. GRAHAM...