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...Childhood and Society, Erik Erikson describes the American adolescent...
Harvard University has no adequate machinery for dealing with those who follow their thought to its conclusion in inaction. And it needs none. Some students will never be the mature citizens that Erik Erikson and the Commonwealth of Massachu-9Psychiatrist may deliver accurate answers to the undergraduate's problems; but they are rarely what he wants to hear...
...Moscow's phenomenal Moiseyev Dance Company was playing to capacity crowds, while the waiting line for standing room coiled around the block. To the north, aficionados flocked to the spring rites as celebrated by Martha Graham and her dance company. But most excitement focused around Denmark's Erik Bruhn, a handsome, blond, well-muscled performer for the American Ballet Theater who not only has the best profile since Barrymore's but may just be the finest classical male dancer now before the public...
Technique Is Not Enough. The Ballet Theater has fallen off from its earlier, more sparkling days, but any shoddiness in its corps or weakness in the orchestra was forgotten on opening night in the performances of Erik Bruhn and Oklahoma-born Maria Tallchief. Appearing in the lead roles in Miss Julie, based on the theme of Strindberg's chilling play, they gave one of modern ballet's truly electric performances-taut, technically polished, tingling with passion. The following evening, in the more elegant climate of Swan Lake, they were equally convincing, and had critics groping for comparisons with...
...vanity that goads most performers; he does not want audiences to pay, he says, "only to see me jump." Furthermore, he would rather "be bad in a good ballet than be great in a bad ballet." But to be great in a good ballet? To do it, says Erik Bruhn, "it is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen...