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Jenkins, a very sensitive person, has been affected by those at Harvard who typecast him as the basketball prima donna. "Some of them think that we are all self-deemed heroes," he said. "Just tell them I'm a human being who just happens to play basketball...
...their brief. Haar and Fessler asked the court to overturn the previous ruling. They argued that since the plaintiffs had established a prima facie case of racial discrimination, the court had erred in failing to require the city to give evidence of a rationale which would overcome the inference of unconstitutional discrimination...
...Deputy Premier in charge of Soviet industry. Economist Yevsei Liberman was responsible for a brief attempt at loosening Moscow's rigidly centralized economic control, and his ideas are now widely emulated in Eastern Europe. An estimated one-third of the Soviet Academy of Sciences is Jewish. Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and perhaps 90% of the Bolshoi Orchestra are Jewish, as are Violinists Leonid Kogan and David Oistrakh and Pianist Emil Gilels. Nor do the Soviet Jews face the open, rampant persecution that German Jews endured in Hitler's Third Reich. But that is small consolation...
...even more of a showpiece for Beverly Sills than the film was for Bette Davis. Absent from the New York stage for more than a century, the opera was revived especially for Sills by the company's director, Julius Rudel. He conducted it adoringly and surrounded his prima diva with an all-star cast headed by Mezzo Beverly Wolff, Baritone Louis Quilico and, of course, Domingo. Amply returning the favor, Sills proved again that she is unsurpassed as a coloratura. With gestures ranging from near-hysteric twitching to imperious slaps, she brought the Virgin Queen's tragedy...
...Absolute nonsense!" That was Rudolf Nureyev's response to the rumor that Russian Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 29, who recently defected from the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, is replacing Dame Margot Fonteyn, 51, as his partner. As for Fonteyn, the prima ballerina sounded unconcerned about the possibility of his teaming up with Makarova. "Sometimes I dance with Nureyev and sometimes I don't," she said. "I dance with other partners, and so does he. I would very much like to see them dancing together some time...