set gDates = [[], [0, "The Times, June 23, 1966", 0, 0, "The Times, April 21, 1913", "The Times, Oct 4, 1922", 0, "The Times, Sep 16, 1927"]]
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@[]#THE GIRL WHO DANCED HER WAY TO FAME###MOTOR-CAR IN THE SEINE#MISS ISADORA DUNCAN ENTERS U.S.##MISS ISADORA DUNCAN'S DEATH
As a young girl from a poor home, Isadora showed great initiative. She and her younger sister Elizabeth would visit the homes of the wealthy, to teach their children to dance#When she begged a skirt on credit at the start of her career, Isadora was obliged by one Gordon Selfridge, a young assistant at Marshall Field's store#Her dance was founded on the belief that "every emotion has its corresponding movement." She urged: "Listen to the music with your soul. Now, while listening, do you not feel an inner self awakening deep within you?"#"My life," wrote Isadora, "has known but two motives - Love and Art - often Love destroyed Art, and often the imperious call of Art put a tragic end to love. For these two have no accord, but only constant battles."#Desmond McCarthey wrote of her book: "Those who are afraid of the body must think it immoral - but it is no excuse for thinking it indecent." Most libraries banned it#Duncan hated classical ballet which she considered physically punishing and bankrupt of beauty or inspiration#On the night of his suicide Yesenin wrote a poem in his own blood "Farewell to you, my friend I say farewell/ You know you have a place with in my heart/ Be sure that one day we shall meet again/ Just as you knew that, one day, we should part/ Let's not shake hands, my friend, nor speak a word/ Do not be sad and bear me no ill will/ for in this world to die is not a new thing/ What's more, to live is hardly newer still"#Isadora's last words, moments before her fatal accident, were "Farewell my friends, I am going to glory."#George Bernard Shaw described Isadora as "a woman whose face looks as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it."
