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In a memorable passage in his great 1969 novel
Mr. Bridge, writer Evan S. Connell sketched a perfect comic picture of the indifference to art among some members of America’s privileged classes. The titular Mr. Bridge, a high-minded Kansas City lawyer, attends a ballet performance, and while he finds himself pleasantly diverted by the ballerinas, he is perplexed by their male partners.
“No doubt they were necessary for the show, and he could not think of any specific reason the young men should not be dancing,” Connell wrote, maintaining some sympathy with his hero while sending up his provincialism. “All the same he did not quite like it.”
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