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Article Excerpt No, Lincoln Center wasn't named for Lincoln Kirstein, but by rights perhaps it should have been. It would have been a fitting monument to a man who, as much as any other, played a key role in the performing arts in 20th-century America. As the School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet, those two great and enduring institutions he co-founded with George Balanchine, celebrate the centenary of his birth this spring, what he achieved is now largely a matter of public record.
Simply buttressing Balanchine and, less directly, Jerome Robbins, would be enough for any legacy. Yet despite his own studied modesty on the subject, he did much more for dance than simply act as a hardworking enabler of those...
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