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During a morning workshop on teaching writing to freshman, Richard C. Marius, director of the expository writing program, told prospective Expos teachers that the average Harvard student doesn't write very well; but he stressed that the problem is not rhetoric but grammar...
...They have trouble defining to themselves what they want to say, and trouble carrying it through to the very end," Marius said, estimating that half of the freshmen entering the University have trouble writing...
...Marius added that further problems arise because Harvard students intimidate many teaching fellows...
...Bayadére, a much beloved work in the Soviet Union, is virtually unknown here, except for a section called "Kingdom of the Shades," which is a distillation of Marius Petipa's pure classicism. The film The Turning Point made beautiful use of its opening sequence, in which the corps de ballet slowly descends a ramp, all the dancers doing the same graceful movement, based on an arabesque, so that the audience sees it from every angle and at the same time as a single image. The stage becomes a vision of harmony, symmetry and peace...
...fair precis of the achievements of Chase and Smith at A.B.T. The company has kept alive the full-length classics, like Swan Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty. This season it will present Natalia Makarova's staging of the complete La Bayadere, one of Russian Choreographer Marius Petipa's influential creations, a ballet virtually unknown in the U.S. except for the famous last act. Similarly, the works of Fokine (Petrouchka, Les Sylphides, Firebird) are preserved in authentic stagings and style...