Word: ballet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field of entertainment, the Voice does an impressive job. It alternates the New York Philharmonic with jam sessions, offers foreign listeners forums, cultural roundups, discussions of U.S. science, literature, ballet, and dramatizations of various aspects of U.S. life (e.g., installment buying). To date, no U.S. comedians or soap operas have been broadcast to overseas listeners...
Agnes took them too. She soon began inventing her own steps, kept up her practicing all through school. But Agnes was no ballerina ("Nothing gave, nothing stretched"). Ballet refused to take her seriously...
...Then," says Agnes, "my sister's arches fell." The doctor prescribed ballet lessons...
Agnes borrowed money, gave recitals, lost money. Then she went to England, "where it was cheaper to fail." Gradually, critics began to applaud her ballets for their witty pantomime and fast, fresh paces. The Ballet Russe finally asked her for a choreography. Result: Rodeo...
...Agnes de Mille doesn't dance often, but when she does, her mixture of classical precision and homegrown humor sets balletomanes cheering. As the nation's top choreographer, she is usually too busy doing other things. By bringing ballet to Broadway, she thinks, she has "opened the door for dancing" in the U.S. Sometimes she suspects she has opened the door too far: she has already seen too much imitation De Mille on Broadway. Says Agnes: "It's shocking...