Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to these statements, a group of nine Manhattan physicians including Drs. Ernst Philip Boas and Henry Rawle Geyelin of Columbia, and Drs. Foster Kennedy and Henry Barker Richardson of Cornell sent Manhattan colleagues a mimeographed campaign sheet of brief, basic arguments for health insurance. Compulsory health insurance, they said, would lower the "financial burden of illness by spreading the cost over . . . large groups of people. It would enable the sick to seek medical treatment early in disease. ... It would enable the physician to give more adequate care to [poor] patients because such care would not entail an added financial...
Many musicians consider the above to be a good description of the way in which the Basic band plays. There is a sense of almost overwhelming power about the band, due to its great rhythm section and general ability to relax, that creates immense swing without being noisy. This is typical of what is known as Kansas City swing (Andy Kirk and Jimmy Lunceford are bands of the same style); whenever you hear a band playing with that feeling of being just behind the beat, but not worrying too much about catching up, and brass with great solidity...
...weird boogie piano backed by rhythm which is quiet, but which seems to say "Out of our way, we've swing to play." Get the Count to play you some slow blues with Jimmy Rushing singing a chorus, Lester Young playing clarinet, and piano by Mr. Basic himself; then go home and see if you still like Clinton...
Before an audience of nearly 200 people Robert D. Feild '30, assistant professor of Fine Arts, last night described the purpose of teaching the fine arts as an interpretation of their "basic significance and inner reality," an interpretation which must be based on, but must go beyond, history and archaeology...
...eventual closed shop can be justified by comparison with conditions of employment elsewhere, and by the fact that 85 per cent of the workers are already members of the Union. But concession today cannot be interpreted as indication of probable weakness tomorrow. It was only because of the basic willingness to modify unreasonable demands--for an $18 wage, an immediate closed shop, abolition of the pension plan, and provision for summer employment--that such an eminently satisfactory agreement could be reached...