Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know. His compositions and orchestrations become more and more complex, and he is turning to the so called modern school of composition, retaining, at the same time, much of the flavor and even some of the form of jazz. The result is a unique hybrid, which nonetheless comes too close to Gershwin, Grofo, and Morton Could to suit me. I want my Ellington and I want it straight...
...botany and agriculture. Among many new crops are green, red and black cotton. The Russians have found a method of planting winter wheat (in unplowed stubble) that enables it to withstand Siberian temperatures of 40 below zero. By crossing Merino ewes with wild mountain rams, they have bred a hybrid mountain sheep that bears fine fleece wool. Through their pioneering Institute of Artificial Insemination, Russian biologists have produced 50,000,000 farm animals from vacuum-bottle spermatozoa...
...mules were Freudians they would be kicking mad. They always have parents, rarely have offspring. Because they are the hybrid, infertile offspring of a mare and a jackass, race suicide is as involuntary among mules as old-fashioned families among rabbits. When Nickolaas Jecobus Vermaak, of Natal, South Africa, announced recently that his mare mule had thrown a "colt" sired by a stallion, neighboring farmers smiled incredulously. But he had rightly trusted his mule-sense. Mule-wise Dr. John Quinlan dashed over from the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, confirmed his guess...
...fullback is the key man in this system, handling the ball more than any other player. On most plays from this hybrid T, the pigskin comes first to him, since he is the middle man in the line-up of backs, whereupon he turns and fakes or passes the ball to someone before going about his business, whatever it may happen...
...year as Music Editor of International News Service. He has contributed to The Saturday Evening Post, The Nation, The American Mercury, The Musical Quarterly and Theater Arts. And he is the author of the first authoritative analysis of America's own "musical language"-Jazz, Hot and Hybrid...