Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...variety of dynamic tensions characterized all three of the works that the Boston Ballet presented last week at the Music Hall, in the opening series of performances of the 1977-78 season. The program, which ran through Sunday, began with Act II of Swan Lake, the famous moonlit encounter of a prince with the enchanted Swan-Queen. Separating this act from the full ballet proved to be something of a mutilation; it cancelled the careful dramatic architecture of the whole, forcing the audience to view the ballet as "pure dance." Yet this limited view is not totally stifling...
...story was written by Education Editor Annalyn Swan and researched by Reporter-Researcher Ellie McGrath. Both are recent college graduates who found that their public school years did not prepare them well for what was to come. "I hadn't read enough classics and had never taken essay exams before I got to college," says Swan, who went from Biloxi High in Mississippi to Princeton. "My high school and those we visited for this story don't anticipate the challenges of the outside world; they seem to equate excellence with elitism." McGrath, a 1970 Gloucester (Mass.) graduate, concurs...
...story, Swan flew out to Coos Bay, where she sat in on classes and interviewed students along with Los Angeles Correspondent Edward Boyer, a former high school and college English and journalism teacher. Occasionally mistaken for a student s Swan found the teen-agers eager to talk. When she asked a class if three or four would like to join her for dinner, 13 newspaper staffers showed up. In Iowa City, Midwest Correspondent Anne Constable found that students and faculty at West High were so excited by the attention that they made TIME'S coverage the subject...
...Swan Song...
...will be Bok's tenth year in the College presidency and Bok, this source says, has mentioned to fellow administrators that he will stay in his present post for only ten years. Although that intention is far from definite, the completion of the drive would be a fitting swan song for a departing president...