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Rumor And Gossip, Like Sound Itself, Appear To Travel By Wave-effect, Sheer Preposterosity Being No Barrier.

Trying To Squash A Rumor Is Like Trying To Unring A Bell.

Americans Ought To Be The Best-traveled, Most Cosmopolitan People On Earth, Not Only Because Experience Of The World Is Desirable In Its Own Right, But Because As A People Acquires A Great Concentration Of Power, Worldliness Becomes A Moral Imperative.

Ours Is The First Society In History In Which Parents Expect To Learn From Their Children, Rather Than The Other Way Around. Such A Topsy-turvy Situation Has Come About At Least In Part Because, Unlike The Rest Of The World, We Are An Immigrant Society, And For Immigrants The Only Hope Is In The Kids.

Ballet's Image Of Perfection Is Fashioned Amid A Milieu Of Wracked Bodies, Fevered Imaginations, Balkan Intrigue And Sulfurous Hatreds Where Anything Is Likely, And Dancers Know It.