“Kirstein and Balanchine — the shy, Boston-bred impresario and the iron-willed Russian — were not an obvious pairing. Kirstein was the intellectually driven scion of a family that made its fortune from Filene’s department store. He was not a good student; it took him three attempts to get into Harvard. While he was still there he made his first venture as a cultural force with the founding of a literary journal, Hound and Horn (whose European editor was Ezra Pound).”