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...Ode to Henry's Wives...
...with classics, the company has unveiled many new ballets, chiefly by Ashton and current Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, 51. On this trip the Royal brought three works new to U.S. audiences: Ashton's Rhapsody, a glittering display originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov; MacMillan's Gloria, a dark ode to the generation killed in the Great War, set to the bright strains of Poulenc; and Isadora, also by MacMillan, a tasteless, breast-baring melodrama about Modern Dance Pioneer Isadora Duncan, with a pastiche score by Richard Rodney Bennett. In addition, the Royal performed, for the first time...
...great, incomparable, and never-to-be-surpassed Crimson! What have you done? What have you not done? What will you do? You are a microcosm of the universe.... --from "Ode to The Crimson" circa...
...broad look at societies from the Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia to the blacks of Albany, N.Y., Gilder has produced a 306-page ode to the economic and moral benefits of unfettered capitalism. Some Reaganauts expect Wealth and Poverty to become a classic of supply-side economics, the school of thought that believes Government policy should focus more on helping private enterprise boost the output of goods and services...
...world. Stories about Iran and their plight were torn out of magazines, including TIME and Newsweek, that were circulated to the prisoners, but the guards did not censor the tables of contents, so the hostages could tell what stories were missing. Petty indignities continued to the very end. Richard Ode, at 64 the oldest hostage, had his shoes taken away the day he was captured. He shuffled about barefoot or in socks until he was about to board the plane taking him to freedom-and then the guards gave him only a pair of plastic bedroom slippers. Why? Ode said...