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...look down on football fanatics before I became one myself. My conversion was like Alypus', as described by Augustine in his Confessions: "Quid plura? Spectavit, clamavit, exarsit, abstulit, inde secum insaniam qua stimularetur redire; non tantum cum illis a quibus prius abstractus est, sed etiam prae etiam prae illis, et alios trahens." New, as if to prove the medieval maxim that one must believe in order to understand, I have come to see what all the excitement is about...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia); Debussy: Pel leas et Melisande; 3 LPs (Columbia). Under the baton of that red-blooded logician, Pierre Boulez, all is rite in Stravinsky's polysavage world and all is light in Debussy's interplay between symbol and reality...
...recounts with hostility how she worked for a whole year on a ballet by a young colleague set to Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette-only to have it turned down by the officials because it was "too openly erotic." Another ballet based on a picture by Picasso was also vetoed. Makarova quarreled with the grande doyenne of the Kirov Ballet, Madame Natalia Dudin-skaya, because she "preferred to try and impose her own rather stereotyped interpretation of each part." In spite of these disputes, she concedes: "I was at the top. I had danced all the leading roles...
...people who cannot afford to ???ay have moved. They are not here ?? get the benefit from the roll-back. A lot of the new tenants are and they are being quite vocal in demanding as much rent relief as they can ???et...
...things are changing," Republican Leader Hugh Scott told his Senate colleagues not long ago. "And we are changing with them. Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Right on, Senator Scott! Congress may be changing, but at what a pace. About as often as the planet Pluto swings around the sun, Congress does indeed bestir itself, examines the archaic rules by which it conducts the nation's business and gently blows away some of the accumulated dust of more than 180 years. But never enough to disturb one tradition -the hallowed rule of seniority-that has often prevented Congress...