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...help his company along, Arthur Mitchell was forced to turn choreographer; almost by accident he has thus established himself as the most promising dance creator to emerge from the Balanchine ranks in recent years. Fete Noire, based on a Shostakovitch score, is a neoclassic Russian romp set in some imaginary imperial salon. At once crisp and buoyant, it demonstrates how well Mitchell has grasped the real secret of Balanchine's genius-the mastery of the logic and geometry of bodies in motion. By contrast, Mitchell's Rhythmetron is a throbbing, stylized Afro-Latin tribal ritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Doing the Thing You Do Best | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...loss, Harvard's first in the Ivies, left only Princeton and Yale unbeaten in the League. The Tigers are highly favored to romp over Yale next week...

Author: By Bradford B. Kopp, | Title: Matmen Lose to Tigers; Ivy Title Hopes Ruined | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...Barton still has the favored team. The latest win was a 92-30 romp over Dunster, which had won two games earlier. "So they weren't pussies." Barton asserted. The score was 32-10 at halftime, and Quincy decided to try for 100. "That's playing our substitutes half the game," the coach pointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy 'B' Team Unbeaten in 16 Games | 1/14/1971 | See Source »

...painful now to realize his role in the moral collapse of our society. I was happy and innocent back in my pre-school days when my younger brother and I used to wake up two hours early on Christmas morning to enjoy the anticipation of that romp down the stairs to the living room full of presents. We used to go into our older brother's room to wait and play in our pajamas, the ones with the feet on them...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Santa Claus Myth-Why It Must Be Crushed | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

After Catch-22's painful revel in World War II, and M-A-S-H's super-sanguine romp in Korea, it was inevitable that someone should take up Viet Nam. This first novel by a British journalist who covered the war is effectively mordant about military decadence, debauchery and destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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