Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reputation for being a very private person, often temperamental, always a perfectionist. She would not be an easy subject, warned her friends. But when Gelsey Kirkland agreed to be interviewed by TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand for this week's cover story, she approached the task with the same dedicated professionalism that has made her at 25 the nation's youngest star ballerina...
...rich, fluent responses momentarily trail off. "It's...I...No...I...I don't know if I can do justice to what is absolutely the most central and important thing I do. I don't know why I love directing--it's like saying, 'Why do you love this person?' It's multifarious, intellectual and personal." Or at least it is when Havergal directs. And exuberant, theatrical and infectious, according to the cast that has worked with him for the last two months on the Loeb Mainstage production of Beaumarchais' Figaro...
Following him around before the open dress rehearsal is like accompanying a particularly jolly doctor on morning rounds. He greets each person warmly, inquires how they are, and adds, "Had a shout...
...some people might be upset by it," concedes Havergal, "but I wanted it to be an educational thing, where everyone could see just how you do cast, so you can see what a quirky, individual thing it is. Each person was making up his own mind along with me about what was best. I think casting should be done very openly--except of course for my private conversation with George while watching, things like 'he's not very good;' that shouldn't be open. Often an actor has the feeling that 'oh, he's better than I am,' and here...
...same thing at Harvard and many other places--a person is rated on the basis of how many books he's published, how many courses he's teaching, how, much money he gets paid... those people who are agressive and career-oriented and competitive are 'successes,' but the institutions of the elite are far from being the whole story...