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She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

Lincoln Kirstein

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Lincoln Kirstein
Age: 88 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 4
Died: 1996
Died: January 5
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Rochester
New York
Lincoln Edward Kirstein
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Necessity

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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
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Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
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