Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coasters. Many of the old jump arrangements saved from former times by Harvardian trumpeter, George Springer, whose career started back in the Randloph days, have been regretfully left in their covers, apparently unwanted by the jaded dancers of the late forties. The musicians have had to work off their excess energy on fast waltzes, rumbas and sambas. Answering the current demand for gentility in dance music, leader Bob Herman has weighted his ten man group heavily on the saxophone side--there are four of them--and has oriented his style around the "smooth dreamy ballad...
...reminds me of some acute remarks which were made on this engaging subject about 30 years ago. The following appeared, I believe, in 1918: . . . The human weakness for profanity is like the human weakness for tobacco-it does not cure anything, but it undoubtedly soothes and caresses. Carried to excess, it grieves the judicious; practiced in moderation, it allays the passions, promotes digestion, placates animosities, and makes for happiness at the domestic hearth . . . No sane man would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist...
Porter, on the other hand, supported the return of direct price control on consumer goods, a tax on excess profits, restoration of full rent control, extension of consumer credit controls, and allocation of critical materials in short supply...
...Party," was vexed to hear that all his intended guests (Sargent, Rodin, Renoir, Whistler, Degas) were too dead to attend. As for his children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn tennis...
This year, only two out of five of the College's 2,500 veterans are buying books under the G.I. Bill, according to figures released by John H. Munro '34, Counsellor for Veterans. As a result of upped tuition, only those few vets with a great deal of excess eligibility time have elected to have the government pay for their texts, be explained...