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...coarseness of speech, the slang and profanity, the rude, selfish manners, loud raucous laughter, the low standards of taste . . . the passion of our vile movies, our viler music, the craze for maniacal gyrations, euphemistically called the modern dance . . . are characteristic of a growing number of our youth today...
...Helmet. Alexander is indifferent to heat, cold, rain, dust, danger and food. This convenient oblivion enables him to concentrate on tactics and strategy and a quiet craze for physical fitness in his troops. No matter how eccentric his dress, he usually looks neat as a pin and sharp as a tack...
...this type of music leads to war degeneracy." For the rebuttal up rose Leopold Stokowski: "Some foreigners do not understand how rich the U.S. is in folk music. . . ." Said Frank Sinatra (whose worshipers had been labeled "pitiful cases" by Rodzinski): "Nuts! . . . After all, I grew up in a jazz craze, and I did all right...
...this constituted the biggest revolution in U.S. popular musical taste since the "swing" craze began in the middle '30s. Public demand was shifting from Afro-American stomps and blues to a much simpler (and often monotonous) musical idiom that was old when nostalgic '49ers were singing Clementine. Hillbilly music is the direct descendant of the Scottish, Irish and English ballads that were brought to North America by the earliest white settlers. Preserved...
...ridden out many another crisis. Founded in 1889, it got off to a fast start because Brothers Samuel and William Childs got aboard two great trends of the 20th Century: 1) the anti-germ wave (they insisted that cheap food should also be clean food); 2) the quick-lunch craze (when they went into business there was nothing but the free-lunch saloon between carrying your own lunch to work, or eating at a leisurely, expensive "continental" restaurant). Periodically Childs ran into stone walls - as when wheatless, meatless days in World War I ate into its flapjack sales, and when...