Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reconstruction. It receded when the militarists took power, but began to rise again after the war. Dumpy little Noriko Awae, who sings the blues several shades lighter than her U.S. sisters, was soon a national figure. Yet in the last two years the blues have faded somewhat behind a blaze of boogie...
...blaze is Ryoichi Hattori, 43, a jolly, wavey-haired fellow whom many Japanese jazz composers call sensei (teacher). Hattori teaches chiefly by object lesson: he has written more than 2,000 songs, many of them smash hits. Last week his Aoi Sammyaku (Blue Mountains) headed the Japanese radio hit parade...
...chimneysweeper in Oliver Twist, who labored under "the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death," explained the attitude of masters to boys who got stuck: "Boys is wery obstinit, and wery lazy, gen'lmen, and there's nothink like a good hot blaze to make 'em come down vith a run . . . vereas smoke ain't o' no use at all in makin' a boy come down, for it only sinds him to sleep, and that's wot he likes . . . It's humane too, gen'lmen, acause, even...
Firemen believed sparka from the incinerator which lit upon sun-bathing mattresses, started the blaze...
...hard unity and rounded drama of each chapter brakes the rush, preserves a sense of direction, and imposes a feeling of historic logic. The pictures themselves satisfy, or fail to, in about the same degree and frequency as actuality itself. Yet now & again, as actuality can, a few moments blaze with the fire of art. Items...