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From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: May 13, 2007 | Copyright information

THE WORLDS OF LINCOLN KIRSTEIN

MARTIN DUBERMAN

Knopf. 723 pp. $37.50.

BY ALASTAIR MACAULAY

The New York Times

LINCOLN KIRSTEIN - patron of the performing, visual and literary arts; novelist; poet; critic and historian of dance, photography and painting - was one of nature's titans. He looked the role.

Nobody who saw or met him can easily have forgotten the imposing physical impression he made. Tall, strong-browed, ...

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