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...newest ballet in Manhattan last week started off as relaxed as a picnic, and seemingly just as impromptu. As the curtain went up, a man in a grey double-breasted suit strolled on to the nearly bare stage, clarinet in hand. Taking his time, he eventually reached a stool in a downstage corner. He tootled a few warm-up phrases; then the orchestra in the pit joined in a discreet background from Aaron Copland's Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra. Thereafter, Jerome Robbins' Pied Piper kept its happy air of the impromptu, but it was scarcely relaxed...
...with German justice." The New York Times's Drew Middleton solemnly cabled that "the whole structure of German friendship and sympathy toward Americans . . . has been fractured." It wasn't as bad as that, though a lot of Germans were delighted to see the Americans stuck defending a stool pigeon...
...began what in official Dominican chronology is called Year One of the Era of Trujillo. Today, in Year 21, the Dominican Republic probably has more policemen and stool pigeons per capita than the Soviet Union. Trujillo shows no more mercy for his countrymen than he showed for the Haitians in 1937. There is no record of the number of Dominicans his bullyboys have shot and beaten to death, but exiles charge that the toll runs into thousands. Political prisoners who come back alive tell of Gestapo-model cells so constructed that the inmate can neither stand up nor lie down...
Mostly, the newly christened Dagmar sat on a high stool in a low-cut dress and just breathed. Somehow, televiewers liked to look at her. They clamored for more Dagmar. She was brought from her perch, led to the center of the stage, handed several sheets of paper and directed to read their malaprop contents. Dagmar performed with the same majestic and rhythmic perfection she brought to breathing. Televiewers loved...
...Road. In Beechwood, Wis., Mrs. Joseph Hann bruised her leg in a collision involving a car, a truck, and the tavern in which she was sitting when she was knocked off her bar stool...