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...routine. Erick Hawkins, 54, Graham's former husband, is a Freaked-Out who finds Method in the madness of portraying such things as a pine tree and a shy squash. His movements, though, are often so blandly repetitive that he would do better to imitate a dancer. Anna Sokolow, 55, is a Put-Down whose searing, bleak dances are a condemnation of society's ills. Try as she may, she can't seem to manage a smile. Last year she set out to strike an upbeat note in Time Plus 7 by having teen-agers frugging...
...adapted by a British repertory group; U.S.A.: The Opposition Theater, six 30-minute modern American dramas sampling the satirical and anti-Establishment wares of such groups as the Second City and the Living Theater; and V.S.A. Dance, several 30-minute ballets choreographed by the likes of George Balanchine, Anna Sokolow and Glen Tetley...
...company's repertory ranges from the raw brutality and passion in Talley Beatty's classic jazz ballet, The Road of the Phoebe Snow, to the chillingly abstract study of loneliness in Anna Sokolow's Rooms. Ailey's own Roots of the Blues and Revelations are danced with savage grace and élan. Roots traces the evolution of the blues from the barrel houses of New Orleans to the speakeasy era; Revelations, drawing on Negro spirituals, evokes the hope and despair of a beleaguered people...
World President of the Zionists is Nahum Sokolow, scholarly, goateed journalist who was elected last summer (TIME, July 27). Currently President Sokolow is visiting the U. S. Last week in Manhattan, before starting on a tour of the Midwest, he spoke at the opening of the American Palestine Campaign. Nahum Sokolow speaks twelve tongues (he politely corrected Louis Wiley of the New York Times who, at a dinner, credited him with only nine). He addressed his audience in Yiddish last week, departing from his set speech to eulogize the late Boris Schatz, head of the Bezalel School of Arts & Crafts...
...Last week Nathan Straus Jr., 42, son of the late Charitarian Nathan Straus, assumed leadership for the first time in fund-raising activities of any sort, as chairman of the Greater New York section of the American Palestine campaign. Presiding at the meeting at which Nahum Sokolow also spoke, he said: "I like a difficult job . . . I accept the responsibility of leadership at this hour, not merely by right of name or kinship with any man. but by right of my conviction of the supreme importance of the success of Palestine. . . . The Passover week is near at hand. . . . Millions...