Word: superhuman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often claimed that Prospero is omnipotent, but he is not. He can do certain things when he wears his magician's robe, but other things depend on the willingness of his superhuman servant Ariel, who hopes to store up enough brownie points to earn freedom from his master. The very name Ariel suggests the "airy spirit" Shakespeare described him to be, though the name is actually a Hebrew one found in the Old Testament, one of whose meanings apparently was 'hearth...
Orchestrating his material with a certainty and lightness of touch, Morris shuns facile psychohistory and lets Roosevelt's life build its own edifice. Contemporaries who tried to describe Teddy liked superhuman analogies: "He really believes he is the American flag," said one. Yet the man was something less, and, finally, something more...
...picaresque, sets out on a journey on which depends the future of his race or his nation. He sets out to achieve his identity in the most widely accepted tradition of Western literature: the journey. From the Odyssey to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, amidst the background of superhuman danger, virtue came in the struggle of the hero and his triumph over evil forces...
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...Broadway English, it is an applause machine. The Four Seasons is Dancin ', classical style. As he often has in the past, Robbins has made roles that enhance young dancers like Nichols, Watts and Duell. He has also shrewdly exploited the technical gifts of Baryshnikov, whom Robbins calls "a superhuman instrument." (The Fall segment will also be danced by Peter Martins with different choreography and music, to show off his serene purity of line.) On opening night, The Four Seasons was on the program between two Balanchine masterpieces, Concerto Barocco and Symphony in C. Those ballets were brutal competition...