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Word: pas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both particularly strong on the femine gender. In one series the teacher is trim Actress-Playwright Maria Mauban; the other displays British Cinemactress Dawn Addams, looking marvelously unacademic in a pair of black tights. And all either series asks of the televiewer is to learn French. Eh bien, pourquois pas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gals & Gauls | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...with Nijinsky and even with the late actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite Fonteyn in an electrifying pas de deux from Le Corsaire, Nureyev withdrew from all his scheduled performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Troubled Tartar | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...Respect. Nureyev ignores his critics, though he realizes that he still has much to learn-and many observers agree with him. In bravura numbers-such as the pas de deux from Le Corsaire or from Bournonville's The Flower Festival of Genzano-his technique is often insecure. Nureyev himself points out that Yuri Soloviev of the Kirov Ballet is a far more polished performer. But what remains undisputed is that no dancer has greater natural gifts than Nureyev, or a more tempestuous temperament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Troubled Tartar | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...chest X ray indicated recent changes in the lungs-but again, nothing definite. This and other hints suggested that the anemia might be complicated by a tuberculous infection. So the doctors at once prescribed vigorous treatment with the most potent combination of anti-tuberculosis drugs: streptomycin, PAS (para-aminosalycylic acid) and isoniazid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Busy To Be Sick | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

Years ago, a brash young man, visiting in the Beacon Street home of Godfrey Lowell Cabot, asked his host how it felt to be both a Lowell and a Cabot. The question was greeted with thunderous silence. The guest tried manfully to excuse his faux pas. "I'm afraid," he murmured, "that's a pretty silly question, Mr. Cabot." Replied Cabot: "Young man. it's the damnedest silliest question I've been asked in 80 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Zest for Life | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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