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Composer Bernstein contends that there is a mystical relationship between the occult numerology of the kabbalah and his 50-minute score. In fact, the Dybbuk music is a bland, pseudo-modern pastiche-a murmuring of Mahler here, a shriek of Stravinsky there, stray leitmotifs of Hasidic melody to suggest ethnicity. Robbins' choreography matches the music, sometimes cliché for cliché. When the orchestra explodes in a burst of Yiddish song, dancers sway sinuously, as if at a ghetto wedding. There are great yaps of brass at Big Moments of high stress; on stage, the performers thrust splayed hands...
...embassy in Washington and asked them what it was. One reason I was suspicious was that I remembered in the early years after the Revolution, when contacts were first being established with the bourgeois world, a Soviet delegation was invited to a meeting held on some islands where stray dogs were sent to die. In other words, the Soviet delegation was being discriminated against by being invited there. In those days the capitalists never missed a chance to embarrass or offend the Soviet Union. I was afraid maybe this Camp David was the same sort of place where people...
...Your article on the new Jewish Reform Haggadah for Passover [April 8] once again demonstrates that those who stray from traditional Orthodox Judaism eventually realize the necessity of returning to a tradition that has no need for "reform" because it is a modern, fulfilling way of life, which already contains within it all the processes for any necessary change...
...British government study released in February concluded that since 1969 such intimidation, mainly directed against Catholics, has caused at least 60,000 of Greater Belfast's 500,000 people to abandon their homes for safer -meaning segregated-neighborhoods. Even Belfast's housing authorities now recommend that "stray" families be moved away from "alien" neighborhoods. The Hamiltons and McCartans have had more than enough. "We're all thinking of leaving," said a male survivor at the funeral of John Hamilton...
Although the Chanel styles never stray far from Founder Coco's ideal of refinement, this season's collection caused controversy. Designed by Disciples Jean Cazaubon and Yvonne Dudel, the line ran to vaporous chiffon gowns, gored skirts, lingerie-style blouses. But instead of the calf-length skirt that other couturiers adopted, Coco's designers raised the hemline to just below the knee. In the eyes of Syndicated Critic Eugenia Sheppard, that "broke the charm of those once magic proportions...