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Kirstein's lifework, as it happens, takes in a good deal more than dance. A poet, art critic and onetime novelist, he seems to have an aesthetic Midas touch that produces quality in virtually everything he takes up. At Harvard he established and edited the magazine Hound and Horn, which from 1927-34 was among the most distinguished literary journals. The Harvard Society of Contemporary Art, which he co-founded in 1927, became the prototype for New York's Museum of Modern...
...nonviolent attitudes. Their infrequent protests were usually over relatively minor matters of university policy and were voiced in polite grumbles. Last winter, however, the students briefly occupied university buildings in Athens. But that minirevolt-which one government spokesman at the time quipped was "like a mosquito sitting on the horn of a bull"-quickly fizzled...
Dizzy Gillespie blew his horn, James Brown accompanied himself on the pelvis, and Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco for the 4,631st time That would be quite a show anywhere, but in Harlem ... well, it was show enough to make limousines full of people who rare? SSS(TM) K to Harlem pay as much as $100 each for the privilege. Of course every C note sung and spent went for a noble cause: the Dance Theater of Harem. Finally the whole stageful of illustrious benefactors was upstaged by the long-limbed benefactees. D.TH danc ers leaped...
...REBECCA HORN San Francisco...
...were missing, he simply said, "The machine age is not perfect." And the popular "honk for impeachment" demonstrations just don't have any thrill to them when the president is two full hours down I-95 or in San Clemente or Key Biscayne. No blast from a car's horn in Philadelphia can rattle the White House windows. There is no satisfaction in booing Nixon from a distance...