Saturday Special: Maya Plisetskaya / Ravel “Bolero” (Part 2)

Youtube:  Arclog66 writes:
Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925. She studied at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School. Became a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet as soon as she joined it in 1943 and prima ballerina in 1962. After being excluded for political reasons many years from tours to the West, she was finally in [...]

Lord of misrule (Malcolm Bradbury)

David Lodge in Guardian
The title of Malcolm Bradbury’s third novel, published in 1975, has become a proverbial phrase, invoked in journalistic headlines and echoed by other writers (eg Alan Bennett’s The History Boys) without any thematic reference to its source. To understand why The History Man impressed itself so deeply on the British collective consciousness [...]