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...mystery of a cathedral; yet her people make their entrances and exits, and the trains rush in and out again, and life moves on. Her problem is what it has always been: how to catch the fleeting moment without freezing its flight. Isabel Bishop's brush creates a vibrant shimmer and veils her everyday dramas in a magic mist that evokes a sense of timelessness...
...said I had them all licked." Year after year, as both choreographer and dancer, Martha Graham has continued to jump higher and more daringly than anybody else in the dance world. Last week she was back in Manhattan, moving audiences with her typical mixture of exuberant wit and vibrant theatrical presence...
...ricocheted into the academic world with a Ph.D. in economics. In the '30s he was a quasi-Marxist (teaching at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, Williams) who viewed the U.S. as ripe for fascism. When the country survived, Lerner got a crush on it, three years ago produced a sweeping, vibrant, 1,036-page paean, America as a Civilization (Simon & Schuster; $10). Last fall the admiring Ford Foundation sent him for a year to Delhi University's Indian School of International Studies to soak graduate students in U.S. lore-and in his own passion for action...
...Bland, approving copy has flowed westward, uncensored, on Red China officialdom ("gracious and courteous"), babies ("cute and chubby and cuddlesome"), the sights in the capital ("Peking is almost ready for the tourists; it has little to be ashamed of and much to be proud of"), Premier Chou En-lai ("vibrant personality"), and industry ("The organization of China's industrial enterprises is excellent"). Sometimes his stories have sounded as if they were translated from the original Red Chinese: "The West must come to China, even if it involves the loss of Formosa. The world has reached a stage where most...
...country's best language departments, a fine medical school, and a new university press that publishes six learned journals, including the lively Midwest Journal of Political Science. Last year U.S. foundations gave Wayne $4,724,000. Ford alone gave $700,-ooo to launch Wayne's vibrant new Monteith College, an experimental liberal arts school designed for intellectual independence and "adventurous students...