Word: itchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want a seat! Then boldly sate your itch...
When Paul Taylor quit Syracuse University and hotfooted it to Manhattan 14 years ago, he was not sure of anything except that he had this terrible itch to dance. Faced with an audition before Martha Graham, he was uncertain as to whether he should leave his shoes on or go barefoot. So he compromised and danced in his socks. But once he got his feet off the ground, he quickly became the barefoot boy with cheek, choreographing numbers in which dancers simply walked across the stage like pedestrians, stood rigidly still for minutes on end, or cavorted and slithered...
...knowledge of Russian can have only an approximate sense of the quality of the original language in Yevtushenko's reading. The contents of the verses, however, can be judged in Alan Bates's English translation, and they do not seem to burn with artistic flame-they itch like inflammations. Except for the famous piece Babii Yar, which is more an emphatic speech than a poem about the slaughter of tens of thousands of Jews by German troops near Yevtushenko's Kiev, topics of recent years are often triumphs of trivia, his attitudes the aggravations of an adolescent...
...mark of Cain is on the century. More than 100 million people in the last six decades have been killed in military action alone, and the hairy thumb of violence has not lost its itch. Can man learn, before it is too late, to control the Cain in his constitution? Only if he understands the brute, says Austria's celebrated Naturalist Konrad Lorenz (King Solomon's Ring, Man Meets Dog). But the brute, he hastens to add, cannot finally be understood in psychiatric terms because man is too small a measure for such things. Aggression...
...itch, a manic stench...