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...work of art is often a synopsis of its time. Versailles tells of 17th century French rationalism in its orderly facades and the geometry of its gardens. Michelangelo's sculpture reveals in its robust anatomy the renaissance of man's faith in himself. Yet few objects compact so much of a world into a microcosm as the Romanesque cross recently acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...openers, the company staged its pièce de résistance, a robust rendering of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, followed by a lavish, streamlined Swan Lake featuring nothing less than the reigning tandem of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, who had volunteered their services and spent one week of intensive rehearsals mastering the myriad refinements of Cranko's interpretation. But the creation that stirred the most frenetic response from the crowd was the première of a handsomely preened and plumed production of Stravinsky's Fire Bird, grounded in the Fokine tradition but soaring...
...Bach Society closed its season last night with a program commendably chosen and performed. Gregory Biss and the orchestra warmed up Allessandro Scarlatti's Concerto in F for Strings, a brief and harmonically simple piece culminating in a robust gigue...
Dockery will probably end up in the lineup somewhere, though, if only because he is a switch hitter. Without him, the Crimson has one left-handed batter in the probable starting lineup--Lee Sargent, the third baseman who hit a less-than-robust .209 last year...
...Robust Debate. Whatever merit Alabama courts had detected in Commissioner Sullivan's case was totally demolished. The First Amendment, said the Supreme Court, clearly spelled out "a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials." This commitment, the court has long held, binds the states through the 14th Amendment, which forbids them to abridge a person's liberty without "due process of law." Added the court: "The Times advertisement...