You Can Use A Biography To Examine

At The Ballet, You Really Feel Like You're In The Presence Of Something Outside The Rest Of Your Life. Higher Than The Rest Of Your Life.

In A Democracy, Supposedly We Hold Power By What We Do At The Ballot Box, So Therefore The More We Know About Political Power The Better Our Choices Should Be And The Better, In Theory, Our Democracy Should Be.

Everything Seems To Be Going Faster And Faster. It's Really Harder To Create Something That Endures. The New York City Ballet Has Succeeded In Doing That.

There's A Feeling About It. You Feel Almost Like A Cabinetmaker, Laying Planks. There's A Real Feeling When You Know You're Getting It Right. It's A Physical Feeling.

Among The Reasons That You Go Into Journalism, I Suppose, Are Some Rather Idealistic, Even Foolish Reasons. In My Case One Of The Reasons Was I Wanted To Explain How Things Really Work, How Political Power Really Works.