Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bright stars illuminate the outlines of their constellations. Similarly, Gelsey Kirkland's brilliance has drawn attention to a whole new generation of American-born dancers. In their early 20s, they are poised at the turning point between skill and mastery. Though the rigors of training typically lend a certain sameness to ballet performers' lives, the new U.S. dancers show a surprising diversity. Six of the most promising...
...stages in the composition of a story. But he never abandons his book's true aim: the reclamation of three underrated 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...
...divorce. Yet he writes with the freshness and emotional intensity of a 20-year-old memorializing his first love affair. His book is considerably more resonant than the customary first-love novel, however, perhaps because authors and characters in their 40s have deepened and mellowed, and those in their 20s are too raw to be consistently interesting...
...least for its first half the show sticks to a purely historical narrative. We are treated to stories of maids during the '20s, nurses during the '40s, food during the '60s, and parietals and boyfriends throughout. It is interesting, though somehow one feels that history can be more exciting than the educational films you used to see in fourth and fifth grades...
...arranging the return of the Hungarian crown, dealing with Micronesian demands for self-rule, seeking a settlement on Cyprus and coordinating the Belgrade conference on human rights for the State Department. A Rhodes scholar and whiz kid member of the White House staff under Lyndon Johnson while in his 20s, Nimetz has been tapped by Vance for the difficult job of coordinating the State Department's campaign to sell any proposed SALT agreement to Congress and the country...