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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathered that day, on the same spot where three Portuguese children said they had seen visions of the Virgin Mary, declared that they had seen the noonday sun swirl and dip. The pictures were evidence of the miracle, said L'Osservatore, since they were of "rigorously authentic origin" and had been snapped by a witness who "succeeded in fixing the exceptional scene." Last week, L'Osservatore changed its mind, it now doubted the authenticity of the pictures, and added: "We might very well have been deceived in our good faith...
Balanchine wanted to use Mozart's sprightly Divertimento in B Flat (K. 287) for his 73rd ballet. Four days before the premiere by his New York City Ballet, he found a title of French origin that fit his new dances like a leotard: "Caracole" -twisting and turning in a compact form. Caracole was full of fancy, always clear, but incredibly complex. The companies that could dance it, as the Times's John Martin noted, "could be numbered on one's right thumbs...
Advanced Planet. The saucers cannot be of terrestrial origin, Riedel reasons, because: 1) their skin temperatures must be too high for any material known on earth; 2) they perform maneuvers that require a pilot, but which would kill any human pilot; 3) their propulsive systems leave no trails at high altitude, as all systems known on earth do. Therefore, thinks Riedel, the things must come from a planet where air and space technology is more advanced than on earth...
...burning of a cross in the Yard. In a world of chaos, such an episode is an example of blind stupidity and fear. This is, of course, an extreme result, but we have seen too many extreme results. The chaos and uncertainty of modern art and thinking finds its origin in a refusal, deliberate or not, to answer today's problems. Is it not Harvard's duty, as it has been the duty of universities throughout history, to protect the rights of men like Gropius and Filipowski who find at least one answer? The issue seems...
Unhappily, the film betrays its literary origin by stressing emotion rather than motion. It is the tale of the Rev. Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee), a simple Zulu minister who journeys from Ndotsheni, Natal to the great, bewildering city of Johannesburg to find his lost sister. There he discovers that she has become a prostitute in the squalid; segregated shantytown where the plight of black-skinned people in a white man's world is shockingly evident. The black voyager also finds that his only child, Absalom, has murdered a young white champion of the oppressed Negroes. The victim...