Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Germany's real cool cats were concerned, those Communist cubes over at the Ministry of Culture must have flipped. The music for the Lipsi, the German Democratic Republic's newly authorized, ideologically correct song-and-dance craze, sounded like a South American nightmare with a boogie beat. It was nothing but a hopped-up minuet in 6/4 time -bogue*, man, real bogue.-The dance steps themselves looked like a mixed-up rumba, laced with old-fashioned open steps that led to a kind of shimmying amble-ticky, man, real ticky...
Other songwriters picked up the beat, the nationalized publishing house rushed their efforts into print, and reluctant bandleaders began to climb on the wagon. Even that old turkey-trotter Gerart Eisler turned up to grace a Lipsi demonstration, and his comments suggested that there might be further refinements to come. "Somehow, 80% to 90% of all popular songs deal with love," complained Gerart. "One can create very comical political lyrics...
...want to go.'' The remark falls somewhat strangely from his lips. A musical director at M-G-M when he was barely 19, Previn has since juggled the careers of arranger, composer, conductor, concert pianist and jazzman, and kept each in the air without missing a beat...
...events of this past week are a good example of the inconsistency that has plagued the squad. After violently mixing the lineups of his four boats all spring, Coolidge left intact the same combinations since last Monday. On that day the boat stroked by Hoffman, designed as the varsity, beat Goodman's J.V.'s by a full length. But Wednesday Goodman's boat trounced the varsity by a length of open water, or two boat-lengths in all. Then Thursday it repeated the performance, although winning by only a length, and so earned the right to race the varsity shell...
Fortunately, while the Crimson is suffering from shortage of practice Cornell probably has had the same late start. The Big Red, undefeated last year except by the Crimson and with five returning men from the first boat, is rated as "the team to beat" this year...