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But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company. | is | {
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But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company. | added | {
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The `` Taras Bulba '' excerpt is a rousing version of Gogol 's Ukrainian folk-tale choreographed by Bo Fenster to music of Soloviev-Sedoi. | is | {
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It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, and it contains everything in the books - lusty comedy, gregarious cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt to make the human body perform. | danced | {
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It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, and it contains everything in the books - lusty comedy, gregarious cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt to make the human body perform. | perform | {
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Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr. Livshitz were the chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent. | were | {
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Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr. Livshitz were the chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent. | was | {
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At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening. | was | {
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What a man this Petipa was! | was | {
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Its ballerina, Olga Moiseyeva, performs simple miracles of beauty, and Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Inna Korneyeva and Gabrielle Komleva make up a threesome of exquisite accomplishments. | performs | {
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The middle section of the program was made up of short numbers, naturally enough of unequal merit, but all of them pretty good at that. | made up | {
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They consisted of a new arrangement of `` Nutcracker '' excerpts danced stunningly by Irina Kolpakova and Mr. Sokolev, with a large ensemble ; a winning little `` Snow Maiden '' variation by the adorable Galina Kekisheva ; two of those poetic adagios in Greek veils ( and superb esthetic acrobacy ) by Alla Osipenko and ... | danced | {
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Vadim Kalentiev was the conductor. | was | {
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It was quite an evening! | was | {
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A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960. | fretting | {
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As the pace of the quadrennial American political festival accelerated, Mr. White took more notes. | accelerated | {
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He traveled alternately with Mr. Kennedy and with Richard M. Nixon. | traveled | {
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He asked intimate questions and got frank answers from the members of what he calls the candidates ' `` in-groups ''. | asked | {
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He asked intimate questions and got frank answers from the members of what he calls the candidates ' `` in-groups ''. | got | {
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He assembled quantities of facts about the nature of American politics in general, as well as about the day-to-day course of the closest Presidential election in American history. | assembled | {
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Those of us who read the papers may think we know a good deal about that election ; how little we know of what there is to be known is made humiliatingly clear by Mr. White in `` The Making of the President 1960 ''. | read | {
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Those of us who read the papers may think we know a good deal about that election ; how little we know of what there is to be known is made humiliatingly clear by Mr. White in `` The Making of the President 1960 ''. | is | {
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This is a remarkable book and an astonishingly interesting one. | is | {
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Mr. White, who is only a competent novelist, is a brilliant reporter. | is | {
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His zest for specific detail, his sensitivity to emotional atmosphere, his tireless industry and his crisply turned prose all contribute to the effectiveness of his book. | contribute | {
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As a dramatic narrative `` The Making of the President 1960 '' is continuously engrossing. | is | {
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And as an introduction to American politics it is highly educational. | is | {
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The author begins this volume with a close-up of Mr. Kennedy, his family and his entourage waiting for the returns. | begins | {
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He then switches back to a consideration of the seven principal Presidential hopefuls : five Democrats - Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Adlai E. Stevenson and Mr. Kennedy - and two Republicans - Governor Rockefeller and Mr. Nixon. | switches | {
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Then, in chronological order, Mr. White covers the primary campaigns, the conventions and the Presidential campaign itself. | covers | {
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In the process he writes at length about many related matters : the importance of race, religion, local tradition, bosses, organizations, zealous volunteers and television. | writes | {
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Mr. White is bluntly frank in his personal opinions. | is | {
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He frequently cites intimate details that seem to come straight from the horse 's mouth, from numerous insiders and from Mr. Kennedy himself ; but never from Mr. Nixon, who looked on reporters with suspicion and distrust. | cites | {
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He frequently cites intimate details that seem to come straight from the horse 's mouth, from numerous insiders and from Mr. Kennedy himself ; but never from Mr. Nixon, who looked on reporters with suspicion and distrust. | seem | {
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He frequently cites intimate details that seem to come straight from the horse 's mouth, from numerous insiders and from Mr. Kennedy himself ; but never from Mr. Nixon, who looked on reporters with suspicion and distrust. | come | {
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He frequently cites intimate details that seem to come straight from the horse 's mouth, from numerous insiders and from Mr. Kennedy himself ; but never from Mr. Nixon, who looked on reporters with suspicion and distrust. | looked on | {
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`` Rarely in American history has there been a political campaign that discussed issues less or clarified them less '', says Mr. White. | been | {
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`` Rarely in American history has there been a political campaign that discussed issues less or clarified them less '', says Mr. White. | discussed | {
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Mr. Nixon, he believes, has no particular political philosophy and mismanaged his own campaign. | believes | {
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Mr. Nixon, he believes, has no particular political philosophy and mismanaged his own campaign. | has | {
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Mr. Nixon, he believes, has no particular political philosophy and mismanaged his own campaign. | mismanaged | {
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Although a skillful politician and a courageous and honest man, Mr. Nixon, Mr. White believes, ignored his own top-level planners, wasted time and effort in the wrong regions, missed opportunities through indecision and damaged his chances on television. | believes | {
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Although a skillful politician and a courageous and honest man, Mr. Nixon, Mr. White believes, ignored his own top-level planners, wasted time and effort in the wrong regions, missed opportunities through indecision and damaged his chances on television. | ignored | {
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Although a skillful politician and a courageous and honest man, Mr. Nixon, Mr. White believes, ignored his own top-level planners, wasted time and effort in the wrong regions, missed opportunities through indecision and damaged his chances on television. | wasted | {
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Although a skillful politician and a courageous and honest man, Mr. Nixon, Mr. White believes, ignored his own top-level planners, wasted time and effort in the wrong regions, missed opportunities through indecision and damaged his chances on television. | missed | {
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Mr. Nixon is `` a broody, moody man, given to long stretches of introspection ; he trusts only himself and his wife. | is | {
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Mr. Nixon is `` a broody, moody man, given to long stretches of introspection ; he trusts only himself and his wife. | trusts | {
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He is a man of major talent - but a man of solitary, uncertain impulses. | is | {
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He was above all a friend seeker, almost pathetic in his eagerness to be liked. | was | {
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He wanted to identify with people and have a connection with them ; the least inspiring candidate since Alfred M. Landon ''. | wanted | {
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Mr. Kennedy, Mr. White believes, `` had mastered politics on so many different levels that no other American could match him ''. | believes | {
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Mr. Kennedy, Mr. White believes, `` had mastered politics on so many different levels that no other American could match him ''. | mastered | {
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Mr. Kennedy, Mr. White believes, `` had mastered politics on so many different levels that no other American could match him ''. | match | {
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Calm, dignified, composed, `` superbly eloquent '', Mr. Kennedy always knew everything about everybody. | knew | {
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He enlisted a staff of loyal experts and of many zealous volunteers. | enlisted | {
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Efficiency was enforced and nothing was left to chance. | enforced | {
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Efficiency was enforced and nothing was left to chance. | left | {
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Mr. Kennedy did not neglect to cultivate the personal friendship of reporters. | neglect | {
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Mr. White admires him profoundly and leaves no doubt that he is a Democrat himself who expects Mr. Kennedy to be a fine President. | admires | {
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