Word: astonishment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since those days, the phenomenal popularity of dance has made sophisticates of the most provincial audiences. Yet even in New York City, epicenter of the modern movement, the 27-year-old Taylor company has retained its power to astonish. At the City Center the dancers are currently providing evening after evening of crackling wit and virtuosity under the hand of a master...
...migration has surprised demographers, but it can hardly astonish anyone familiar with U.S. attitudes toward urban existence. Americans have always preferred smaller communities, and did so even during the years when the nation seemed bent on emptying its entire population into metropolitan clots. Surveys have consistently shown that a majority of the people, including almost 4 out of 10 big city dwellers, were partial to a life outside the metropolis. Some leaned to the suburbs and others to more rural vistas. But the biggest single dream remained the small town. Now, when more and more are moving to fulfill that...