Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortunately for its director, the youthful (average age: 22) Harkness troupe is fully up to such dramatic demands. Some of its 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...
...special gift of Nigeria's Wole Soyinka,* the continent's foremost black playwright, is to speak to Africans about Africa in the concrete context of today but with a keen residual sense of the past. He is emancipated without being alienated. Blending mock humor with flare-lit passion, he is both a satirist and a mythopoet...
...come at last to the scholarship of civility, devoid of passion, lacking love or outrage, irrelevant to the agony...
...come at last to the scholarship of civility; devoid of passion, lacking love or outrage, irrelevant to the agony of man. "The advancement of learning at the expense of man," Nietzche wrote, "is the most pernicious thing in the world...
...democratically slept with all who could afford her huge fees. "Don't forget," she once told her friend Colette, "that there is always a moment in a man's life, even if he's a miser, when he opens his hand wide." "The moment of passion?" asked Colette. "No," replied Otero, "the moment when you twist his wrist...