Word: isadora
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That one was the face of a beautiful youth. Old Baruch could not supply his name, so Rachel called him Zanko. For Zanko, and sometimes for old Baruch, Rachel danced like Isadora Duncan, sang like Schumann-Heink...
This crudite discussion was effectively neutralized by that of another man who was inspired to repeat the famous conversation reported to have taken place between Isadora Duncau, famous dancer, and George Bernard Shaw...
...young U. S. Jew named Isadora W. Schlesinger tired of his family's banking business, ran away to Johannesburg, Africa, where he landed with only a few pennies in his pocket. Smart, hardworking, he set out to make his way not by mining but by servicing the miners. Beginning with insurance, he got into real estate, farming, banking, shipping, chain stores, theatres. Now 61, he is short, round-faced, roly-poly, called "the Rockefeller of South Africa" because he owns more of it than any other man. Still a U. S. citizen, he dislikes publicity, hides in a tiny...
...major characters and a host of minor ones, picture such widely separated locales as pre-War Harvard, Wartime Paris, Miami during the Florida boom, Hollywood, Greenwich Village, Detroit. This trilogy also includes 27 brief biographies of such representative public figures as Steinmetz, Luther Burbank, Henry Ford, Sam Insull, Hearst, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, artfully spaced throughout the three volumes. The author provides, in addition, a shorthand autobiography in the form of 51 poetic interludes, called The Camera Eye, which show his own attitude toward the events in which his characters are involved. Like most works of fiction that are written...
...orchestra pit while dancers from the American Ballet mimed their roles on the stage. Even among purists such a prospect aroused little concern. A similar device had worked successfully with Rimsky-Korsakov's Cog d'Or, seemed ill-suited to the 18th Cen-tury Gluck, whom Isadora Duncan consistently referred to as the greatest of dance composers...