Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn open Denishawn, first school of modern dance...
...attended a Los Angeles recital by the dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis. It was the first dance performance of any kind that Graham had ever seen, and it overwhelmed her; in 1916 she joined Denishawn, the school and performing troupe that St. Denis co-led with her husband Ted Shawn. At 22, dangerously late for an aspiring dancer, Graham had found her destiny...
...Shawn H. Duhamel, a legislative liaison for the Retired State, County and Municipal Employees Association of Massachusetts, said the COLAs would benefit about 1,700 retired public employees, many of whom do not qualify for social security and who must live on an average pension of $11,000 per year...
What was happening was that the editor and the writer had set up house in a building 11 blocks from the apartment where Shawn's wife and boys lived. Cecille would not give her husband a divorce, Ross says, and he would not unilaterally leave the marriage. So Shawn shuttled between residences, eating nearly all his meals with Ross, checking in at home, rejoining Ross in time to watch the late news together, and then returning home to sleep next to a private phone on which he and Ross conversed...
...arrangement seems daring even by today's forgiving standards. Perhaps more distressing is that Ross explodes Shawn's beatific public reputation, one protected by many who worked with him. "Mr. Shawn," as he was addressed at the New Yorker, was beloved by his staff. His decency, skill, editorial patience and generosity are legendary. He was shy, courtly and neurotically self-effacing. Ross, however, reveals a side of the man that resembles a Walter Mitty fantasy: a denizen of jazz joints, racetracks and classy restaurants. He was also an ardent mate. "After 40 years, our love-making had the same passion...