Word: martha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know whether my dance will live," Martha Graham once said. "This is not my concern. If the ideas and principles of movement I have created pass into the general stream of dance, I shall feel amply satisfied." Lately, however, the grande dame of modern dance has displayed a somewhat less cavalier attitude toward the body of 144 works that she has created over the course of 43 years. Not only is she beginning to film some of them for posterity, but a number of less familiar pieces have been revised and restored to her recent repertory as well...
...There were other old favorites, like the 1946 Dark Meadow and the 1947 Errand into the Maze, both symbol-laden ritualistic works, which give the current programs far more the look of Graham retrospectives than was the case in previous Manhattan appearances. From the looks of it all, Martha Graham, a month short of her 75th birthday, is finally reconciled to being a part of history...
Second is the Island Country Club on Martha's Vineyard. It would be a shame to spend four years at Harvard without visiting the Vineyard, and the Island is a good excuse. Mild winners keep it in good shape all year long, and if you get tired of golf you can take off your shoes and go swimming...
...wrote a booklet telling G.I.s how to get along with British girls (because of cultural differences, she warned, they were apt to think that an American's playful advances were meant more seriously than he intended). "Margaret sees herself as the mother of us all," says Child Psychologist Martha Wolfenstein, one of her longtime collaborators...
Though 73 years old, Henry Beetle Hough, dean of country-editors, still has a clear eye for whimsy and a delicate needle for his brethren in the publishing world. Witness the letter-to-the-editor that Hough recently offered readers of his Vineyard Gazette on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.: "Now I have a real problem. McCall's Magazine advised my wife that 1,992 'lively' women in the Chilmark area are receiving a copy of McCall's every month and would she become number 1,993? The latest census of Chilmark shows...