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Justice would not be served if any of the dancers were to be called anything less than marvelous. These are Corybants who might have flocked in the pagan train of Cybele. Nonetheless, apart from Ann Reinking and probably Wayne Cilento, the dancers seem locked into Fosse's drillmaster perfectionism so that they cannot break out to those moments of individuality and felt emotion that might touch an audience's heart in addition to compelling its admiration...
...challenge, and the debate has gathered velocity ever since: in private faculty discussions, in the columns of the Daily and the Des Moines Register and between state legislators. One lawmaker, State Senator Bass Van Gilst, noted indignantly that Weltha, in his reincarnation course, "seems to be teaching a pagan religion. To me, it's not the duty of land-grant colleges to pursue these things...
...members attend to the debate at hand, others read, amble, joke or even doze. It is not beyond the frontiers of possibility that a member might show up drunk, or threaten to punch another member. Into such an atmosphere, TV cameras would arrive like censorious missionaries landing on a pagan island...
...moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople. But across the still vast spread of the imperial territories, which ran from the Euphrates to Gibraltar, there was no clean break with the old religions. For 400 years, the remnants of the pagan gods contended against Christianity and with the various mystery faiths of Egypt and Asia Minor...
...religion ever started with a full-blown iconography. The earliest Christian work was crude and secretive, a code of graffiti?crosses and fish scratched on walls. To enrich that, to give its visual discourse a dignity to match imperial power, Christian art needed pagan symbolism. Once its early frenzies over idolatry had been resolved, the new religion picked over the bones of antiquity, preserving many of its forms in doctrinal art but switching their meaning...