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...flexibility. At the Staatsoper, her voice was lush and intense. Although she had abandoned the bikini to which she customarily peels in Salome's Dance of the Veils (she had a daughter only three months ago, does not yet feel "back in bikini form"), she still gave the staid Staatsoper audience a grinding, squirming portrayal of disheveled depravity that it would not soon forget. "After all," explained she after eight curtain calls, "the belly dance is Oriental and very old; Herod wasn't interested in the minuet...
Schuman immediately enrolled in a music school, later went off to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, eventually worked under Contemporary Composer Roy Harris. At the age of 34, Schuman, still a veritable novice, was appointed head of staid old Juilliard. Said an apprehensive trustee: "This will either be the greatest thing that ever happened to Juilliard or the most colossal error of our collective lives...
...just to admire the house, but in order to utilize it.'' To Dillon, the U.S. economy is a dynamic weapon in the cold war, an arsenal of dollars that must be strategically employed against world poverty to halt the spread of Communism. Under Doug Dillon, the staid U.S. Treasury is no longer just the Government's check-cashing and revenue-gathering arm: it is an active, shaping force in U.S. foreign policy...
...mother of three. Dr. Weill-Halle has seen her volunteer movement, named Maternité Heureuse (Happy Motherhood), shoot up overnight into a major national organization, the French Movement for Family Planning. In Paris 15 physicians are already giving advice on contraception to their private patients. Even the staid French Association of Women Doctors has come around to demanding repeal...
...staid Matron of 42nd St. has, in the past, raised our ire when she joshes at objections to the NDEA affidavit or confuses Ivy League admissions policy or attempts to knife our Mac. On this occasion we join with all of Cambridge (and Cantabrigians living in Washington) to hail...