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...disgrace" of the New Politics convention in Chicago. He even considered moving to Spain. Instead, Leonard was hired by the Times as one of seven "previewers" who select and recommend books to the Times' critics. Nineteen months later he was promoted to critic-and found his métier...
Petit's extravaganza is a lush mixture of Now and Then. His dancers, tricked out in crushed-velvet pantsuits by Yves St. Laurent, open with the springy "L'Amour du Métier" (The Love of Show Business). As they sing, they flit in and out of a flashing construction of steel tubes designed by the Venezuelan painter Jesús Raphael Soto. Then the Tiller Girls, 16 bright British birds whose forebears were the original inspiration for the Radio City Rockettes, descend from the ceiling in sentinel boxes. Their number is followed by blonde-wigged nudes...
Born with Ability. Yet Casals admits that he has reservations about the cello. He prefers conducting, but avoids any claim of greatness in either métier. From a lesser master, such self-deprecation might seem disingenuous, but Casals clearly means it. "I was born with an ability, with music in me," he explains. "No special credit...
Social Sediment. The Untouchables are castoffs from one of the world's most rigid social orders. Around 1500 B.C., according to many scholars, fair-haired Aryan invaders formalized the four-tier Hindu caste system and introduced a color factor.*The tiers soon evolved into economic strata, and by 500 B.C. a fifth level had been established for Atisudras, or Untouchables. The fifth stratum, peopled by the hated and despised children of intercaste marriages and the lowest laborers, became...
...during the first five months of 1969. The long-disputed South Pacific route award finally went to American Airlines, which will fly to Australia, the Fiji Islands and New Zealand. In addition, the CAB last week granted new or extended routes to twelve domestic airlines in the vast "Southern Tier" stretching from Florida to California...