Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In some ways, he thought, U.S. students had the jump on their British counterparts. They are "more intellectually curious, more responsive to any influence, more deeply and immediately charmed by everything new . . . They seemed (and this could at times be very exhausting) almost incapable of boredom, or of more than...
Since they had not learned how to read intelligently, "they tended to look to their professors to tell them not merely what books to read but sometimes what chapters and what pages; on being told, the more serious among them would throw themselves upon the recommended pabulum and would try...
No Epics. But the congestion and confusion, Berlin decided, had also a more sinister cause. U.S. universities, he found, were plagued by an enervating sense of guilt-a "state of mind of academic persons . . . whom war service or some other sharp new experience has made painfully aware of the social...
Diagonal Demons. From the pit, Igor Stravinsky's 40-year-old score blazed as never before: Stravinsky himself had cut down the instrumentation from the original no pieces to 55, given the score new warmth, color and compactness. Choreographer George Balanchine had scrapped Fokine's original Russian-folk...
With more ballets, Balanchine figures he can extend his season beyond its skimpy three weeks each fall and spring, keep his already devoted dancers eating a few more square meals a year. That too would be all right with Budgeteer Baum. He believes that City Center, which now operates 30...