Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other night at a Count Basic dance, a rather merry young lady in black skunk furs, proceeded to climb onto the band stand, push tenor man Bud Tate out of his chair, sit down and clap her hands while cooing benevolently upon the audience. Aside from the fact that the look on Bud's face was funny as hell, a very serious question was brought up. Just what is the average leader going to do about the jitterbug? Benny Goodman recently wrote a long article proving that the jitterbugs caused his band to play as loudly as it does because...
Coming into a more basic contact with the features of the area concentrations themselves, the Dean will appoint a committee from the faculty to investigate the desirability of general concentrations in each area: natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities...
...into the most deadly activity in U. S. aviation-amateur flying. Vanguard of a host of private pilots that Civil Aeronautics Authority hopes to turn out at the rate of 20,000 a year from hundreds of U. S. colleges, they will have better basic training than the run of cornfield fliers...
...Miller's riff tunes; "Midnight in Madhouse" has a large chunk of Ambrose's "Night Ride" present; "Chant of the Jungle" is an almost exact carbon of the old Casa Loma arrangement; these are just a few of Mr. Clinton's attempts at being original. Benny Goodman imitates Count Basic; but at least he has the courtesy to put Basic's name down as the author of the music he is playing. Clinton does (and badly) Pine Top Smith's "Boogie Woogie Blues," and on the credit line in resplendent dignity is Larry Clinton. The band seems to reflect...
...brings to life the intellectual atmosphere in which each of these great masterpieces was produced, showing the essential huntanity of each work as well as its significance. The startling contrast between each of these six documents does not destroy the unity of Dean Sperry's study, but strengthens his basic theme, the persistence of the Christian Ideal in radically different interpretations...