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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMBASSADOR'S JOURNAL, by John Kenneth Galbraith. Kept during the author's two years as Ambassador to India, this diary is rare both for first-rate prose and succinct irreverent opinion ("The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women...
Things new, exciting and theatrical are rare in the arts at any time. At the moment, most of the theatricality seems superficial and hastily pasted on; not so in dance, which constantly erupts with interior energy and hot creativity. New companies are being born. Old companies are being rejuvenated. Ballet groups are crisscrossing the country, offering a bewildering assortment of dances, some fiery and full of meaning, some backed by rock music and psychedelic lighting, some conventional and harmonious. Two groups are currently drawing more attention and stirring more delight than any others. One is John Cranko's rollicking...
...theater-party ladies create big box-office receipts for shows involving no visible talent on the basis of a show's title ( How Now Dow Jones ); how a star can take over and destroy a $600,000 musical (Eydic Gorme and Golden Rainbow ); how critics mercilessly destroy the rare good Broadway play (Clive Barnes and I Never Sang for My Father...
AMBASSADOR'S JOURNAL, by John Kenneth Galbraith. Kept during the author's two years as Ambassador to India, this diary is rare both for first-rate prose and succinct, irreverent opinion ("The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women...
...IDEA OF THE JEWISH STATE by Ben Halpern. 493 pages. Harvard University. $15. The 19th century European "Jewish problem" was never solved; it just moved to the Middle East. Through the thickets of history and power politics, Halpern maneuvers with rare discernment and objectivity, giving an account of both the Jewish state and its hostile neighbors...