John Birch Society and its influence in postwar America
The piece profiles John Birch, a Mercer University graduate and World War II captain killed in China, and outlines the Society founded by Robert Welch. It notes its rightward stance, anti democracy rhetoric, and campaigns in the military and civic life, including plans for a 1964 presidential run by Welch. It mentions Kent Courtney forming a Louisiana branch party and Goldwater’s unexpected radical pose.
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Birch
Mercer University of Georgia
The
John Birch Society
Robert Welch, Jr
Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
Kent Courtney
Louisiana
Welch
Hoving Reviews Tour and Modern Dance Insights
Dancer and choreographer Lucas Hoving discusses the Jose Simon Company tour noting varied global reception. He contrasts European moderns with skin deep modernism and explains his process from idea to music while highlighting eight upcoming performances and his teaching roles at Juilliard and Connecticut College.
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Lucas Hoving
Mr. Hoving
Bolshoi Ballet
Jose Simon Com
Limon Company
Jose Limon
Simon Company
Kurt Jooss Ballet
Martha Graham
Juilliard
Connecticut College School of Dance
Stockholm
Jooss
J.B
Dance Lineup Moves Through New York Stages
Martha Graham and Company opened at the 54th Street Theatre with Visionary Recital and One More Gaudy Night. Moiseyev Dance Company scheduled at the Metropolitan Opera House April 18 to May 6 then six shows at Madison Square Garden May 16–20. American Ballet Theatre arrives April 24 at Broadway Theatre through May 6 with Points on Jazz and Grand Pas Glazounov. Barnard-Columbia Arts Festival projects dance April 25 at Wollman Auditorium directed by Jan Stockman with Rima Berg Lucas Hoving Val Quitzow and Barnard Dance Group.
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American Ballet Theatre
Martha Graham and Company
Moiseyev Dance Company
54Th Street Theatre
Moiseyevy Company
Metropolitan Opera House
Madison Square Garden
Broadway Theatre
Wollman Auditorium
Jan Stockman
Miss Stockman
Rima Berg
Lucas Hoving
Val Quitzow
Barnard Dance Group
Barnard Library Honor System Clarification Letter
Harriet Schaffer writes to clear up implications about the Honor System in Barnard College Library. She emphasizes staff praise, notes no false-name checkouts, and warns that even a single infraction harms trust while praising librarians and the library’s excellence.
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Honor Board
Barnard
Harriet Schaffer
Ballad of a Soldier Vignettes Across War Time
A series of vignettes from Ballad of a Soldier follows a young fighter on a battlefield and his encounters after the clash. He earns a three day leave after heroic action against a tank, befriends an older soldier, reunions with a wife, and a man’s loyalty tested by a comrade’s wife as bubbles float through the stairway.
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Cornela Navari
Jane Ruben
Eleanor A. Weber
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Rita Schneider
DESEE
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Susan Redd
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Hoving
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Mexico
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Koert Stuyf
New York City Ballet
Moiseyev
American Ballet
Dania Krupska
Dave Brubeck
Pas — Glazounov
George Balanchine
Alexander Glazounov
Barnard-Columbia Arts Festival
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