Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz has to depend on a rare combination of many talents, a band where each player can give the theme a unique personal twist without destroying the musical continuity. When it's "in the groove," a good band rises out of its usual formulas (ordinary jazz is the most rigidly formalized routine...
...Japanese depend much on stealth, craft, deception. Sometimes they attack in mass, screaming. At other times they infiltrate singly, silent as little panthers. Snipers, who hide as well as they did in the Philippines, wear pole-climbers' jacks. The Japs advance with a white flag then toss grenades. Some wear machine guns strapped to their backs and crouch down while comrades fire the weapons. They often use English. They catch names and will shout: "Mr. Manning, withdraw!" A Marine far out in front and reporting by "walkie-talkie" wireless was asked how things stood. The Japs were horning...
...plugs are helpful but jammed in too tight may become sound conductors. "Covering or plugging the ear," adds Dr. Perlman, "deafens it for ordinary sound and your life may depend on your ability to hear commands...
...relief organization which needs no introduction is the American Red Cross. The Red Cross annually receives from the Boston Area donations amounting to between two and three million dollars, but this year the Red Cross will no longer be included under the Community, Fund and will depend more on individual contributions...
...everyone, especially the author, seems confused. Is it a comedy of manners, a bedroom farce, a philosophic romance, or a static vaudeville show? Unfortunately, it winds up with what looks too much like a prolonged curtain call. The dialogue, on which most of S. N. Behrman's plays depend, is laborious in its humor, forced in its numerous modern references, and "stuck in" like the book of a musical comedy. Songs and dances, stereotyped operetta characters, a gaudily colored scene, and some extraneous fill-in material complete this similarity with a musical...