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...sounds of the Beatles. With innovative ballet subjects like these, Britain's Peter Darrell has become known over the past decade as a choreographer who was going to be up with the times at all costs. His latest ballet is a full-length Tales of Hoffmann based on the Offenbach opera. Introduced last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center by the American Ballet Theater, it is a shocker of another sort: an oldfashioned, behind-the-times entertainment that will offend no one, please some of the public, and bore serious balletomanes to distraction...
Darrell created Hoffmann after moving his London-based Western Theater Ballet to Glasgow in 1970, where it became the government-subsidized (98%) Scottish Theater Ballet. "Scotland doesn't see a great deal of ballet," says Darrell, 43. "It's a matter of educating the public. I wanted to do a ballet that was going to be popular." Fair enough-for Scotland. But whether Hoffmann will catch on with the sophisticates among American Ballet Theater's audience is another matter...
...Preus has been fighting the "historical-critical" approach to the Bible that casts doubt, he says, on the literal accuracy of such biblical tales as Adam and Eve and Jonah and the Whale. Less literal Lutherans have hoped to defeat Preus by nominating a popular moderate candidate, Oswald C.J. Hoffmann, the stem-winding radio preacher of The Lutheran Hour. But these hopes were threatened when it turned out that denomination bylaws require all presidential candidates to swear in advance that they will accept the office if elected. Hoffmann recently announced that such a vow would violate Lutheran theology...
...Hoffmann said very few candidates were elected on Sunday. Of 490 seats, only 59 were filled...
...Hoffmann said an important aspect of the election is whether the Socialists outdrew the Communists. The two parties have joined forces in an attempt to defeat the Gaullists. He said, "If the Socialists are ahead, the chances of the leftists to attract the middle people are better...