Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday. "Devoted to harvest work, weeding of sugar-beet fields and the like...
...solved the star problem by coaxing ageless Ballerina Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks) back into the fold to be guest star. It also commissioned Broadway-famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille to do a new number, Harvest According, and got its own ballet master, Edward Caton, to whip up another, Triptych. It was again scheduling an "American Composers Night," when Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Virgil Thomson would conduct their own ballets...
Agnes de Mille's new ballet takes off from the Walt Whitman line: "Life, life is the tillage/And death is the harvest according." Choreographer de Mille works out her ideas in three scenes, "Birth," "Games" and "The Harvest," the last in a Civil War setting. The ballet critics were giving it mixed notices ("A great new ballet," said the Herald Tribune. "Just run of de Mille," cracked the Daily News). But audiences seemed to like its romping "Games" scene and its suddenly gripping finale, where the heroine finds herself mateless and alone in a crowd of reunited soldiers...
...tapestry unwinds slowly, and in a leisurely procession of vivid details-the nuns of Marrick Priory at the harvest, an ousted priest bitterly walking travelers' horses before a church, young squires at archery practice, a merchant cold-bloodedly bartering his wife for a neighbor's gold-the chronicler delicately picks out a background of all England in that...
...last week his "save-the-franc" campaign had fallen afoul of man and nature. Foot-and-mouth disease, raging in central France, had ravaged cattle herds, sent beef and veal prices soaring. A hot, rainless summer reduced butter and cheese production, ripened a grape harvest so abundant that the bottom fell out of the wine market. Rearmament cutbacks produced spotty unemployment in the engineering trades; French labor unions threatened new demands for wage increases. With