Thread: MobileRead July 2014 Discussion: Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
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Old 07-30-2014, 07:46 AM   #15
WT Sharpe
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Now there's a production of The Rite of Spring I'd like to see.

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Nijinsky, dressed in leotards at a time when skin-tight costumes were still thought to be improper, provoked in the audience a collective salivation and swallowing as he descended, hips undulating, over the nymph’s scarf, and quivered in simulated orgasm. That was simply the culmination of a ballet that broke all the rules of traditional taste.

— Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins, page 27.
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