Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swing," is to jazz what the poetic spirit is to poetry. Its exact definition, however, has given jazzmen many a troubled hour. Author Hugues Panassie of the classic Le Jazz Hot tentatively explains "swing" as "une sorte de balancement dans de rythme et la mélodic qui comporte toujours un grand dynamisme." To black Bandmaster Chick Webb of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, swing "is like lovin' a special girl, and you don't see her for a year, and then she comes back it's somethin' inside...
Controversy Closed. Dr. Millikan was among the packed throng which heard Dr. Compton last week in St. Louis. He did not rise, when the speaker had finished, to challenge his conclusions or even to ask a question. Impartial observers were therefore ready to write off their classic controversy as closed, to call it a cosmic clearance. If Dr. Millikan still cherishes the conviction that most of the cosmic rays are photons, he stands almost alone. Three years ago he remarked that if he ever wanted to change his mind, he hoped he would not be pilloried. He has not been...
...section a leader of the lay press. To Editor Noyes the Rich Man's Panic" of 1903, the Panic of 1907, the closing of the Stock Exchange in 1914, the post-War collapse, are as fresh as his birthday last month when he was 73. And in the classic periods of his signed editorials, Mr. Noyes is as likely to discuss the state of the Union under Chester A. Arthur as under Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the eyes of scholars Mr. Noyes occupies a special niche for his two standard histories, Forty Years of American Finance...
Five years ago Pearl Sydenstricker Buck convinced U. S. readers that there was good earth in China, and that its tillers were sympathetic human beings not unlike themselves. Her masterly translation of another classic truth {All Men Are Brothers; TIME, Oct. 16, 1933) fell on somewhat deafer ears. Last week she attempted an even more difficult reconciliation: exile and patriotism, missions and motherhood. Author Buck wrote this book about a missionary's wife as if it were a novel, but readers soon guessed she was telling the thinly disguised story of her mother's life. Few readers...
...pact until our air force is stronger than any other in Europe!!!" Tidying up after Hitler, professional diplomats of the Wilhelmstrasse attempted to be smooth. Germany, they said, might enter an air pact with Britain, provided no other country was admitted. Such a proposal was an example of the classic German diplomatic chess move: "Insert a wedge between Britain and France whenever possible...