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...bishops' own committee on moral values painted an even more dis mal picture of an America gone morally mad with thievery, white-collar crime, "perjury and other violations of honesty at even the highest level of public life." The committee's report also scored economic exploitation of the poor, widespread pornography, violent entertainment and violent crime, more frequent divorce and not only wide acceptance of abortion but the beginning of acceptance of mercy killing. "In significant ways, contemporary Western culture is nonChristian; some would say it is anti-Christian," the report concluded. "Christian beliefs and values are actively...
...rather than painted. Bricklin will put the new car, which is being made in Saint John, N.B., on sale in the Northeastern U.S. next month. He expects to make 1,000 cars a month initially, 100,000 a year eventually. But it remains for the consumer to determine whether Mal Bricklin is the new Henry Ford or his car is the next Edsel...
...chief magician was Rudolf Nureyev, the company's conspicuous permanent guest artist. Following Kenneth MacMillan's disappointing Manon, which inaugurated the Royal's five-week New York-Washington, D.C. season, Nureyev scored a double success. He danced an impressive debut in the comic ballet La Fille Mal Gardée. On the other half of the program was a scene from La Bayardère, the "white ballet" he restaged at Covent Garden...
...Fille Mal Gardée represents a total contrast in mood. In the Royal's English version, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, it is like an animated John Constable landscape. The story tells of the romance between young Farmer Colas (Nureyev) and Lise (Merle Park), daughter of the ambitious widow Simone. With English country dancing and an intricate cavort around a Maypole, it is by no means all Nureyev's show. The familiar danseur noble, burning with erotic fervor, vanished. In his place was an impish rustic, playing cat's cradle, exploding from a stack of wheat...
...fitting climax to a superbly contested meet, Crimson anchorman Hess Yntema gamely closed the gap on Tiger sprinter Mal Howard, only to have the electronic clocking system declare the Tiger quartet a .4 second victor, giving Princeton a slim 419-411 final edge in the overall competition...