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Balanchine, on the other hand, conceives of the relationship
between virtuosity and virtue more aphoristically. Kirstein recounts
an anecdote in which a pushy American stage mother badgered
Balanchine by asking him repeatedly, "Will my daughter dance, will
my daughter dance?" According to Kirstein:
A delphic response was the reply she received, sounding more
oracular couched in French . .. 'La Danse, Madame, c'est une
question morale.'
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PARTISA~
REVIEW
• Pearl K . Bell: Fiction in Review
• Peter Brooks on Psychoanalysis and Criticism
• Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney: Robert Penn Warren
• Barbara Rose on Jackson Pollock
• Conor Cruise O'Brien: Philanthropy and Culture in America
• Rene Wellek on Contemporary Criticism
• Nathan Glazer on Life in the Bronx
• Barbara Probst Solomon on Marguerite Duras
• Poetry by W . S. Merwin and Allen Ginsberg
• Dennis Wrong on the Marxist Enterprise
• Raymond Aron:
A Memoir
• Steven Marcus on Ernest Hemingway
• Fiction by Michel Tournier
