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...brightest stars are Americans-Lawrence Rhodes of Detroit, who brings to Dead Boy and Time Out of Mind an overwhelming sense of racking passion under superb muscular control, and New Yorker Brunilda Ruiz, an agile, high-leaping prima ballerina. The company's foreign-born dancers, ranging in origin from Iceland to Japan, have been carefully selected for their adaptability to an "American" style. That style, explains Macdonald, is the best in the world for new ballet. "Americans are relatively weak in classical training," he says, "but they make up for it in other ways. They move closer...
...Long hair and/or beards have dominated the scene in all times and climes until the 20th century. The scalped, scraped look came into existence during World War I and has persisted because global-scale wars have persisted. It was undertaken originally as a matter of necessity -to curb pediculosis-which runs rampant in barracks and battlefields. It is the style in cloisters and penitentiaries for the same reason. Its origin and its justifications have been forgotten in half a century of conformity...
...escapes me how religious leaders can be so sure that the fetus is a living soul. What seminarian has not grappled with the question of the origin of the soul in his anthropology courses only to come away as undecided as ever? The church today is in grave danger of dogmatizing beyond the clear teaching of Scripture and perpetrating a far greater misery than it did when it put Galileo under house arrest for his "heresy...
...Archaeologist Yadin, who is also a former Israeli Army Chief of Staff, was even more impressed by the parchment scrolls unearthed by his expedition. A portion of a scroll identical with one of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments enabled researchers to trace the origin of both documents to the first half of the 1st century. Says Yadin: "It conclusively disproves the views of some scholars who hold that the Dead Sea Scrolls are either not genuine or date only from medieval times...
...Diaz-Plaja, the origin of all Spanish sins is the sin of pride. Spaniards have never forgotten that in the 16th century even stable hands wore swords and boasted family shields. They are convinced, he says, that they are the equal of any man, even if they happen to be shining his shoes. No government, not even a dictatorship, can impair their basic dignity, which often reaches the point of anarchy, because "the Spaniard always adapts the laws to his personality and never the other way around." Diaz-Plaja, in fact, sees his countrymen's pride as so overbearing...