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John Cranko, founder of the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, molded it into a company of world rank with his ballets on great classical themes: Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew. Cranko's traditional style stressed drama and athleticism. Ballet audiences were therefore stunned when, after Cranko's sudden death in 1973, American Choreographer Glen Tetley was appointed his successor. An iconoclast of the dance, Tetley, 49, raises conservative eyebrows high with his infusion of modern dance idioms into ballet. Again, unlike Cranko, he has always been known for relatively small dance pieces that concentrate...
...Radcliffe squad, which started its season last Saturday by hosting and winning the Shrew Sloop Trophy by 42 points over second-place Jackson, will be at Yale next weekend attempting to qualify for the Nationals...
Sixteen teams are expected to show up, but only three will qualify. Radcliffe will be relying on the talents of Roehm and Pum Mack especially in the event. Roehm and Mack skippered the 'Cliffe to the impressive Shrew...
...somehow the personae who speak those quotations have not staled. Caliban may be an imaginary primitive, but he has been legitimately interpreted as the Colonial Victim violated by Western Man. Kate, of The Taming of the Shrew, may succumb to Petruchio, but not before declaring herself the most eloquent women's liberationist. There is no father who can look upon Lear and Cordelia without pangs, and as for Hamlet, he is so real that he has been psychoanalyzed (and found Oedipal) by Freud's disciple, Ernest Jones...
...Radcliffe sailing team won its own spring invitational regatta last weekend for the sixth consecutive year. Skippers Kathy Angell and Mary Roehm sailed to division titles as they built up a 15 point advantage over runner-up MIT to win the Shrew Sloop Trophy. Tufts, B.U. and Simmons followed...