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SCHORER'S DESCRIPTIONS are just a little outdated, as is his style, refined but worn-out like the typical New Yorker story of the past two decades...
...offstage rivalry with Sister Johnna, a dancer herself; her maturing relationship with Choreographer George Balanchine; her feelings about music; the physical breakdown that lost her a starring movie role in The Turning Point; and her new-found artistic maturity. When she discovered that her interviewer was a fellow New Yorker, she also celebrated the Upper West Side. Hillenbrand had feared she would have trouble expressing in words the nuances that her body projects onstage, but he was pleasantly surprised: "After relating to her every muscle in practice for years, Gelsey has that same intimate self-awareness that Zen Buddhists have...
Jonathan Neumann was still new on the job as a court reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1976 when he noticed that, although murder suspects routinely testified that they had been beaten by police, officials never investigated. When Neumann, a former New Yorker, asked an editor what was going on, he was told: "Welcome to Philadelphia...
...other comer is Atlanta. Although the city has had an amateur dance company since 1929, it was nearly defunct in 1972. Then Chuck Fischl, an energetic New Yorker with a theatrical background, was brought in as general manager. He and Artistic Director Robert Barnett decided that the company should turn professional and expand. Fischl, now only 28, began promoting ballet throughout Georgia. Result: the company, which once had to venture as far as Alaska to find audiences, now runs two summer schools in Georgia and has established homes away from home in Savannah, Athens and Augusta...
...authors and friends: Robert M. Coates, Conrad Aiken and Erskine Caldwell. Of the trio, Coates is the least read and the most appealing. Parisians of the '20s remembered the tall redhead bicycling through the streets: "He looked like a flag," one of them said. Coates was The New Yorker's art critic and the author of acute social novels and stories (The Farther Shore, The Hour After Westerly). One encomium on his work is contained in an aside: "Once a scholar asked to see his letters from Gertrude Stein. 'Sorry, but I didn't keep them...