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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intelligence trade is called an "executive action." That is the term for an action calculated to neutralize an adversary. The means may include defamation of character by propaganda or luring a leader out of his post of influence with the promise of a fine villa on the Côte d'Azur and a bottomless Swiss bank account. The form, in theory, also includes assassination, though the CIA possessed no machinery for this kind of executive action. Harvey had no authority to act, only to explore, assess and advise...
Thrown together by circumstance, the patrons impinge upon each other's lives, become entangled, but never really make connection. "They are very nice, but I can't go on all my life trying to love people at the table d'hôte," complains Mrs. Trollope, a still beautiful Eurasian heiress who dreams of living a settled, grandmotherly life in London. But her movements-like those of all the guests-are charted on another course, often determined by the rates of exchange. Obsessed with money, these inveterate wayfarers remain paying guests not only in the hotel...
Balanchine first choreographed this mixed-media event for Téàtre de Mon te Carlo in 1925, shortly after he first met Ravel. Perhaps it would have been better to let the work retreat into decent obscurity. This new production is sumptuous by City Ballet standards, but the singers are nearly incomprehensible, the Daliesque sets poorly lit and the comic effects too often unfunny...
...league tennis, Columbia and Penn both have started out with two wins in the first tow matches. Columbia, which won the Eastern title in 1972 and 1973, dumped Brown 8-1 and Yale 9-0 while the Quakers swept the Elis and Bruins by 8-1 margins. None of te other eastern teams have started the season but today Columbia is at Dartmouth, Navy at Brown, Princeton at Yale and Penn here at the Palmer Dixon courts. The match begins...
...deepest transformation of a theme that he set off was the imagery of the terrestrial paradise, which he changed into a thoroughly erotic Eden: the island of Cythera, sacred to Aphrodite. It was from this delectable abode of profane love that the 18th century painters of the féte champétre drew their inspiration. Rubens' outdoor courts of pagan love became Watteau's exquisite assemblies of lovers and Pierrots, at dusk, beside the Mozartian stone statue. This vision of a society of the elect united by love (which is equally the root of the paradise myth...