American - Writer | April 29, 1931 -
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.
Robert Gottlieb
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Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.
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What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
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Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
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Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.
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Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.
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The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
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Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
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'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial.
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As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep.
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The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.
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Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.
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