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...While the scholars gasped, Miss Dunham shed her jacket and skirt and stood revealed in her rehearsal costume. . . . She did a short tribal war dance. 'I want to go where they dance like that. I want to find out why, how it started, and what influence it had on the people.' Obviously impressed, the chairman . . . leaned forward, and, without taking a vote, asked, 'How about the West Indies...
There are pretty young girls and a few pregnant matrons among them. There is also Aning Andao, a wizened old lady in a brocaded black head cover, grey striped shirt and patched quilted skirt, wearing an athlete's gold medal around her neck. She has the milky rings of old age around her irises and old cigar stains on her teeth, but she can climb and carry with the best of them...
...yearning 'Cliffedwellers want all the nice servicemen at Harvard, regardless of the cut of their blues or O.D.'s, to come out to Agassiz Hall (ask any bespectacled, book-toting skirt for the direction) on Friday nights, beginning March 9, from 1930 to 2145, for ping-pong, darts, and dancing...
...Vale insists that he is not conducting a campaign against the Catholics and is merely answering issues which they have raised at a time when unity is imperative. But some felt that his sermons narrowly skirt the kind of anti-Catholic talk which incites religious intolerance. The coincidence of Dr. Vale's campaign with a series of Christian Century articles on Catholic strength in the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 22) indicated not only Protestant concern over the rise of U.S. Catholicism, but a possibly dangerous trend toward anti-Catholicism. The second possibility disturbs many thoughtful Protestants, who know that intolerance...
...public exhibition inspired ridicule, even some alarm, in critics and public alike. That figure was the famed Ballet Dancer, Dressed (see cut). He first modeled the homely, arrogant little dancer in the nude, then, with breath-taking disregard for tradition, dressed her in linen waist and muslin skirt. The public was more amazed by the covering of this figure (solemnly exhibited like a doll dressed in real clothes) than it usually is by decent, or even indecent, exposure. Degas never again exhibited his sculpture...