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Vogt accepted the baton, nothing that the Maya Indians also own batons which, they believe, possess an inner soul placed there by the gods to foster leadership...
Inexplicably, the authors of that arrogant nonbook The Best missed a chance to make a snap judgment that few would challenge-namely, that Maya Plisetskaya is the finest female classical dancer in the world. Last week the reigning ballerina of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet headed a group of touring stars from the company in a week-long engagement at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Shrewdly, the management announced in advance that she would dance at every performance; otherwise, seeing this uneven cadre of Bolshoiviks -actually, they constitute less than one-third of the entire troupe-without her would...
...none of this really matters. From the first moment that marvelous Maya, sexily garbed in black, sashays onto a stage tricked up to evoke a bull ring, she is smolderingly present as a dangerous woman on the make. Whether stalking defiantly away from a woebegone Don José or melting luxuriously in his arms, this Carmen is a creature, almost a prisoner, of passion. All stops out, Plisetskaya swaggers through the role with a shameless, feline verve that commands the eye and utterly dominates the stage...
...degree lost, tied to the rest of humanity?and to God?by fragile strands of grace, strands that fray and break. Pardon is a favor that we may sometimes be in a position to grant, but more important, it is one that we will always need. � Maya Mahs...
Near Thing. Finally, about half of Moyers' shows are conversations with people who view public life from angles not much reported on television. He has talked things over this season with, among others, Black Poet Maya Angelou, Labor Leader Harry Bridges and Historian Daniel Boorstin. Last week, Moyers interviewed Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, who has been carrying on a love-hate relation ship with the U.S. for more than 30 years...