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...press had a personality. It wheezed and groaned and squeaked and thumped and sprayed. Actually there were five presses over the century of the Free Press, but in most minds they are all one, each rising out of the one before. My companion and teacher was No. 3, a flatbed machine of such weight and exuberant horsepower that it ultimately cracked the brick walls of the building. On stifling summer nights in the Depression and the war years, with all the windows open, the thudding of that press could be heard up and down the alleys and street. The people...
Moved by an impulse he scarcely understands, he decides to take dancing lessons from an older instructor, while secretly eyeing the lovely and distant Mai (Tamiyo Kusakari, whose long-lined elegance suggests a Japanese Audrey Hepburn). A former competitive ballroom dancer and less-than-enthusiastic teacher, she rebuffs his shy initial advances, telling him plainly that he'd better not dance if it's her she's after. Piqued, he throws his best efforts into proving that he does want to dance, and ultimately makes the lie true. The dancing gets into his blood, providing him both release and fulfillment...
...classical dance traditions; at her home in New York City. Orphaned at three, Danilova fell in love with the stage. At the Ballet Russes in the 1920s and '30s, she soared as Odette in Swan Lake and sizzled as the street dancer in Le Beau Danube. As a teacher at the School of American Ballet, she inspired generations of dancers. "I sacrificed marriage, children and country to be a ballerina," she wrote, "and there was never any misunderstanding on my part: I knew the price." Her audiences knew only the profit...
...funniest of these vengeful academic burlesques is Richard Russo's Straight Man (Random House; 391 pages; $25). Russo, a former professor at Colby College in Maine and author of The Risk Pool and Nobody's Fool, commences his slapstick when William Henry Devereaux Jr., creative-writing teacher and chairman of the English department at an obscure Pennsylvania college, makes a slighting remark about a colleague's poetry. She whacks him across the face with a notebook, and the metal coil hooks his nose...
...teacher in the U.S. during the early '70s, I realized that achievement through persistence, self-discipline and hard work fosters self-esteem, self-reliance and many other positive qualities. Racism is bred in homes where children are deprived of the motivation that helps them to achieve. It is not racism that is a deterrent to success, but ignorance and personal vices. Minorities need only equal opportunity, education, pay and fair treatment. Like Connerly, I see myself as a color-blind American. Minorities will never be considered equal until they see themselves that way--as humans and Americans, not as minorities...