Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jazz is essentially impressionism: that is, the expression of specific moods or ideas by music, and Debussy is one of the best at this in the classics. Ellington has long acknowledged the basis of his style to be from Debussy and Stravinsky. And if nothing else, Debussy furnishes a basis of unusual chord and harmonic structure that is invaluable to anyone trying to learn how to express ideas spontaneously through music...
Beneath the outwardly smooth course of Anglo-American relations there runs a current of nagging hostility. The London Daily Express had this sarcastic bit to say on the death of Senator Borah: "We remember him as a biter critic of Britain. In this country he was always regarded as an extremist, but it must be remembered that all Americans shared his creed: America first." It would do no good to fan these smoldering embers, but The State Department can serve well the cause of keeping America at peace by insisting on the rights of neutrals. That these rights...
Although tabulation of the returns will not be completed until the end of this week, results thus far express general dissatisfaction with the present scheme...
...Canada this week the appointment of Mr. Stanley was viewed askance, for Canadian troops have been writing home rhapsodies about the fine treatment they have been given by "The Tommy's Friend." In London the Daily Express of self-made Canadian-born Baron Beaverbrook gloomed: "Mr. Oliver Stanley is a most unsatisfactory appointment. . . . He belongs to the Tory hierarchy. . . . Belisha does not belong to that class...
...make his mangy bottom-dogs plausible and pathetic without making George and Lennie's relationship grotesque or gooey. Author Steinbeck made loneliness the common human factor of all his bindle stiffs, made their loneliness as vast as the western mountains they work among, but made them express it only in two-syllable language as mean, hard and sometimes as foul as their semisavage existence. Result was no U. S. The Lower Depths, but a bleak, unhappy little tale with a powerful climax, some of whose tenseness was due to a nervous feeling that if Author Steinbeck made one false...