Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view all they could find of the decade's imprint on celluloid. Out of it they culled 23 hours of film for NBC Producer Henry (Victory at Sea) Salomon and his Project 20 staff. This week (Thurs. 10 p.m., E.S.T., NBC) TViewers can see the result: The Jazz Age, which boils ten gaudy years down to 54 lively minutes...
...some of the decade's juicy memories, e.g., the Scopes "monkey" trial, marathon dancing, flagpole sitting, Billy Sunday, the bathing beauty, Florida's real-estate boom, the Sacco-Vanzetti case-even (unaccountably) the advent of radio broadcasting. But the '20s had flavor to spare, and Jazz Age catches the tangy essences that should send oldtimers on a sentimental binge and plunge the younger set into wistful incredulity...
Nothing in Jazz Age is more stirringly nostalgic than its sound track. Arranger Robert Russell Bennett has woven together 18 songs, e.g., Dardanella, Chicago, Yes Sir, That's My Baby, in the orchestral style of the period, and orchestrated Hallelujah with the clack of a stock ticker as its motif. The narration of the film, the second in a Project 20 trilogy (first: The Great War; third: The Story of the Thirties), is redolent with the decade's slangy idiom, from "Let's get blotto" to "Nerts." Better yet, not only for its authentic ring...
...prepare yourself for usefulness in the war effort. College men need not be told again that they have no right to be in college unless they have planned their program in the light of participation in the war . . . . We firmly believe that every physically qualified man of college age should be trained for the Armed Services unless specifically assigned to other work by an appropriate federal agency." he stated...
...Khan and his son, Sadruddin, in thus fostering the growth of understanding between the East and the West is one we all deeply share. Certainly, all peoples around the world need to know and better understand the cultural heritage of those who are our neighbors in the modern age...