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...little special, everyone hoped for the worst. Béjart, 37, has a well-burnished reputation as an enfant terrible director of theater, ballet and opera. His talent for welding all three together into erotic iconoclastic visions of such works as The Merry Widow and The Tales of Hoffmann has made his name a café cliché: "style Béjart" means art that is mercilessly frank...
...they are also the work of a composer who somewhat pitifully liked to be known as "the Mozart of the Champs-Elysées." In his last years, Offenbach struggled to complete his one entirely serious opera, but when he died in 1880, only the piano score for Hoffmann was finished. He was popular in his lifetime, but he accepted his acclaim with some bitterness. "I am happy to have my small place," he said acidly. "I know I'm not a nightingale, merely a little finch...
Erwin D. Canham, Editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Kenneth N. Waltz, Visiting Lecturer on Government from Swarthmore, felt that the smaller nations will play a relatively small part in world politics. Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, predicted, however, that their role will be a crucial...
...Hoffmann conceded that the United States and Russia will remain the only two important nuclear powers, but explained that "the small countries will gain more and more diplomatic power in the next few years. This will lead to an extremely unstable world situation," he said...
...Hoffmann said that France's move was "not necessarily a disaster unless we make it so. It will be one only if we make too many concessions to Red China and allow her to take control of all of China...