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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peoples of Asia dancing is still an organic and important part of religion; each step and gesture, even a finger's tilt, may be loaded with metaphysical meaning. Costumes are designed according to ancient and elaborate convention: in a classic Indian dance drama called Kathakali, the makeup alone often takes from early morning until late in the afternoon. The music accompanying dancers in the East ranges from the Kathakali's ceaseless thunder of drums (the drummers work in relays) to the Burmese Zat Pwé orchestra of a dozen varied instruments-teakwood xylophones, ivory horns, cymbals, Whether...
...agile, accomplished New York City Ballet, which often dances in practice costumes to spare its skintight finances, shot the works last week on a brash, brassy premiere, Stars and Stripes, set to the marches of John Philip Sousa. The works were well shot, thanks largely to George Balanchine, at 54 not only the world's most prolific choreographer (the Sousa ballet was his 93rd), but its finest...
...Central Junior High (64% Negro), teachers patrol the lavatories during class breaks to prevent gang attacks, often frisk the pupils for switchblades and razors. Favorite weapon: a beer-can opener with honed edges. One boy at Central Junior was transferred to another school, his teacher reported, "because the extortion racket and fear were just about to produce a nervous breakdown...
...Chevrolet for each of the less than 4,000 commuters using the service." Perlman asked for changes in the law to let railroads set their own passenger fares and service, or at least to put all passenger regulations under the Interstate Commerce Commission instead of under state agencies that "often tell the railroad opposite things...
...gross national product, one of the most often-quoted indexes, is also open to criticism. Designed to wrap up all the statistics in one package it comes out only every quarter, "thus ' often reflects where the U.S. economy has been instead of where it is. Says a Chicago banker: "It's a sluggish graph line. When you get a rapidly developing situation, as we have now a lag can be murderous...