Home > Topic > the 50th anniversary
1 " In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about. "
2 " My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it. "
3 " I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty. "
4 " I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave. "
5 " One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge. "
