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Once in New York she learned with astounding speed. Her adagio in Bizet's Symphony in C becomes more fluent each time she is onstage. Unquestionably she is helped not only by Balanchine but by a younger mentor, her partner Sean Lavery, who is all of 24. Before, Lavery was an elegant dancer and a dutiful partner. Working with Darci has made him an ardent and vigilant one. He talks to her as they perform. If he finds signs of developing nerves like a stiffening body or a tendency to move off the beat, he will mutter...
...Prime Minister's trip to the U.S. had originally been planned as a private visit to New York, to take part in a centennial dinner honoring the late Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky, the fiery Zionist who was Begin's mentor. But after the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on Palestinian autonomy ground to a halt in midsummer, Carter invited Begin for a side trip to Washington to try to get the talks back on track. At the time, the Administration hoped to set up some time in January a trilateral summit involving Carter, Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...eastern part of China; there, as in Premier Zhao's Sichuan, the new national economic policies were first tested. Wan was brought into the central government when Party Vice Chairman Deng, who was then Vice Premier, began promoting skilled provincial administrators to top jobs in Peking. Like his mentor and ally Deng, Wan had been twice purged as a "counterrevolutionary" and twice resurrected. "I personally suffered a lot," he says. "As a party, we have learned much from our suffering. That is why we have the courage to make these reforms...
...Brecht might be said to be the cynosure for the contemporary theatre, so is Wedekind, as Brecht's mentor, a star ascendant in the night sky. This is Wedekind year at the Loeb; the American Rep is scheduled to perform Lulu early next year, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club started its season last week with an auspicious production of Spring's Awakening, Wedekind's first work...
...such a classical experiment as Christiaan Huygens' determination of the distance of the stars with only a perforated brass disc seem as vivid today as when it was performed three centuries ago. In the words of one admiring reviewer, he is the prince of popularizers, the nation's scientific mentor to the masses...