Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast and varied repertory of a hundred ballets, the company staged old classics like La Fille Mai Gardée and Giselle, typical Americana like Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend and Eugene Loring's Billy the Kid, pure abstract dance like George Balanchine's Theme and Variations...
...vast majority of students, the spring break is still a time for the pursuit of pleasure. Thousands of kids are streaming into the Florida beach towns of Fort Lauderdale (where boys express their goal as "beach, broads and booze") and Daytona Beach (where the theme is "sex, sand, suds and sun"), even though the Ivy League considers such places to be Out. "Cliffies look down on the kind of orgy that goes on in some sections of Florida," explains Radcliffe Junior Ellen Lake. Stephen Cotler, an editor of the Harvard Crimson, observes that it's not chic...
...astringent clarity of Charlie is Adrienne Kennedy's murky nightmare, Funnyhouse of Negro, Mrs. Kennedy, the program twice repeats, greatly admires Edward Albee; accordingly the stage is hung with cobwebs, and populated by disparate fragments of a demented Negro girl. From Robert Allen's set we immediately get the theme of black against white (even without the huge black ravens which the script suggests should fly about the set during the first scene). Without surprise, we learn that Sarah (Barbara Ann Teer) had a white mother and a black father, that she rejected her father and his blackness, and that...
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Tears, belly laughs and earthy morality are shrewdly blended by Director Vittorio De Sica, turning for his theme to the 20-year sex battle between a Neapolitan pastryman (Marcello Mastroianni) and a triumphant tart (Sophia Loren...
...jokesmiths who want playgoers to read books of revelation between the wisecracks. What Tennis may portend is that self-contained worlds, either private clubs or entire civilizations, invite and perhaps deserve destruction. Nevertheless, the play is more like the rape of the Sabine men, that stock modern American stage theme in which weak men are ravished and ravaged by strong women...