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    A career in dance, however, was by no means even contemplated at this time.

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    At the outset the matter of Ted's taste arose.

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    But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline.

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    By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and in continuing character.

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    Diphtheria struck suddenly, almost fatally.

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    He adored telling this story of near disaster and how he had triumphed, just as he relished the report of how he went on stage every night on tour in his The Cosmic Dance of Shiva, requiring all manner of spinal flexibilities and related actions, while his sacroiliac was painfully out of place.

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    Near the end of his life he went into a tirade about people who had been "disloyal" to him, triggered by the most recent defection.

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    The amazing thing, when she came to do the long-postponed Egypta in 1910, after she had won international fame, was that she did indeed do a work which was not only a day in the life of Egypt but the life of the nation itself, starting with dawn, with prayer, with the river Nile (she was the river itself), with the labors of the working people of Egypt, with temple ceremonies, with entertainment of the pharaoh, and with the final judgment when, before the god Osiris, the heart of Egypt is weighed against the feather of truth.

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    There were bickerings, outright fights, screaming tantrums, but Ted's vision of the Greater Denishawn had come true.