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Alceste's personal dilemma is peculiarly ironic. Here is a man who has an almost physical revulsion from all that society stands for, yet he is desperately in love with a girl who is society's darling. Célimène (Diana Rigg) is a widow of 20, a teasing, witchy, worldly enchantress. She gossips maliciously, she lies, she keeps two other lovers on the string. Yet until she finally rejects him, the puritan Alceste is in tormented thrall to this pagan Lilith...
...Poon Lim, a native of Hong Kong, spent 133 days on a raft in the South Atlantic after his ship was torpedoed...
Immunology has even provided hope to victims of leprosy, one of man's oldest and most dreaded diseases. Last month, Dr. Soo Duk Lim of Seoul National University, Korea, told an international workshop on immunodeficiency diseases at St. Petersburg, Fla., that he has used immunotherapy successfully on 14 patients with lepromatous leprosy, the most severe form of the disease. Lim, who worked closely with Good's Minnesota group, infused the patients with large doses of white cells from unmatched donors weekly for periods of up to 16 weeks, in an attempt to stimulate an immune response against the bacillus responsible...
Died. José Limón, 64, one of the creators of the American modern dance; of cancer; in Flemington, N.J. Mexican-born Limón turned from painting to the dance in 1928, beginning a lifelong association with the pioneer teacher and choreographer Doris Humphrey. Under her guidance Limón began choreographing his own dances, but by the late 1940s had his own group, and with Mentor Humphrey as artistic director, polished his austere, flowing style. His major works include Missa Brevis and Emperor Jones. He is best remembered for The Moor's Pavane, created...
...Limón Dance Company finds a major U.S. dancer and choreographer now watching from the wings (Limón is 64), but still managing to charge a young, vibrant ensemble with his familiar spirit, dignity and eloquence of movement. One new Limn work, The Unsung, a choreographically skillful paean to America's vanquished Indian heroes, was imbued with all of the solemnity of an Indian sun dance and, unfortunately, much of its tedium. But Orfeo, a free, ever-unwinding retelling of the old legend set to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 11, summoned up the poetic suggestiveness...