Word: marius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearance of his book was greeted with cool reviews. Marius Bewley, writing for the New York Review of Books, said, "In the end, neither a sharper definition of the American essence nor a new illumination of our historical past, is achieved...One regrets that a scholar of professor Jones stature and erudition should have written a case book illustrating the peculiar temptations and dangers that beset the modern cultural historian, but it appears to me that...
...could never follow the story of Raymonda,'" complained Prince Peter Lieven, after seeing the Marius Petipa-Alexander Glazunov ballet, which was premiered at St. Petersburg's Maryin-sky Theater...
Three nights after the Kirov's debut, Sizova stopped the show again with Yuri Soloviev in a wildly exuberant pas de deux from Marius Petipa's Corsair, part of a program of excerpts that the troupe brought off with virtuosity and vigor...
There is a good deal to be said for Logan's second try, all of it in praise of a couple of fraternally rancorous old goats, Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer. Chevalier plays Panisse, who marries the pregnant Fanny (Leslie Caron) after her sea-struck lover, Marius (Horst Buch-holz), jilts her for a square-rigger. Boyer plays Marius' father, Cesar. They are vast bladders of honor, mountains of wrath, vestfuls of selfesteem, and it is a great pleasure to watch them cheat each other at cards or craftily set a derby hat in the street and wait...
Comedy is used in Fanny, as in Marius, only for highlight, with little or nothing by way of ulterior motive. Laughter keeps the drama from becoming maudlin at those points where the story approaches such a danger...