Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nijinsky & James Dean. In London and on the Continent, the only classical male dancer who can match Nureyev's popularity is Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Pale, hollow-cheeked and shaggy-haired, Nureyev radiates a kind of savage excitement that he himself describes as a "mixture of tenderness and brutality." It has prompted comparisons with Nijinsky and even with the late actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite...
Died. Howard Roger Garis, 89, creator of a kindly, top-hatted rabbit named Uncle Wiggily as an extra assignment from his police beat on the Newark (N.J.) Evening News in 1909, who went on to write 200 children's books of the bunny's adventures in Hollow Stump with Fuzzy Wuzzy Nurse Jane and Dr. Possum that sold more than 5,000,000 copies; of leukemia; in Northampton, Mass...
Essentially, this foursome does not slaughter sacred cows but slyly milks them for irreverent merriment. The irreverence extends to God, Shakespeare, Harold Macmillan, nuclear defense, bombs A-through-H. international relations, race relations, the Battle of Britain, the royal family, hale and hollow clergymen, logical positivism, concert singers and pianists, capital punishment, and buyers of pornographic books. British dithering and deadpanning account for as many laughs in these skits as the lines themselves, but plenty of verbal darts...
...that was tied to a tree, Stashinsky recalled, "I felt sick. I kept telling myself this was all necessary to help other people. At moments like this you grab on to your political dogma to pull you through even when you feel it's hollow...
...Hollow Victory. As one means of resistance, Kilpatrick proposed the decrepit doctrine of interposition, by which recalcitrant states attempt to block federal authority with their own. His 1955-56 editorial series on interposition has inspired segregationist leaders ever since-from Virginia's former Governor Almond to Mississippi's Ross Barnett. When interposition failed in Virginia, Kilpatrick had another suggestion: close the public schools. And as the state began to do just that, establishing private "academies" from which Negro pupils could be legally barred, Kilpatrick cheered. "Let it stay that way," he wrote, after a high school in Front...