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...pure and restrained, his partnering impeccable. If anything his reputation has increased since his retirement. He has an enormous following and will dance again this summer at A.B.T. When Rudolf Nureyev burst upon the West in 1961, he brought back some of the Nijinsky excitement. Nureyev has always had Tartar energy and impact; now 37, he has become a dancer of protean range...
Later, Kafka compares the Italians flocking to the 1909 air show to tartar tribes invading an English garden party. What is most interesting about the story is that it was taken in part from original accounts by Kafka and Brod. One wonders whether it was Kafka, Brod, or Davenport who wrote this sentence...
Part of the answer is embedded in the history of Russia and its empire before the October 1917 revolution which brought the Bolsheviks to power. The story of Russia since 1600, like that of the United States, has been one of immense and nearly continual expansion. As the Tartar empire in central Asia began to crumble, Russia expanded eastward, pushing to the Pacific in search of natural resources and territory. In the era of high imperialism, when the other European powers were carving up Africa, America and Asia, the Russians established an empire stretching from Poland and Finland to Sakhalin...
...made merciless fun of poor Emma Bovary, that silly little goose of a Norman schoolgirl, who dreamed in the convent of a mysterious East full of "sultans with long pipes, swooning under arbors in the arms of dancing girls . . . tigers . . . Tartar minarets on the horizon ... kneeling camels." But that was just the East that young Gustave, a dreamy, handsome, unpublished Norman author, a motherbound retarded adolescent of 27, went to see in 1849, the year before he began writing his novel...
...spite of the overwhelming presence of Russia to the east. They feel a stirring of national pride each day at noon when the state radio broadcasts a single prolonged trumpet blast. It commemorates the watchman who stood atop St. Mary's Church in Cracow and spotted the Tartars invading from the east. He sounded his horn in warning until felled by a Tartar arrow...