Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerned in his Jazz: Hot and Hybrid* with the question of whether Benny Goodman is a better hot clarinetist than Joe Marsala or who played the piano on Fletcher Henderson's record of Wang Wang Blues. Instead, he rolls up his sleeves and squares off with a lucid chapter on "Improvisation, Notation and the Aesthetics of Folk Music." "Folk music," says Author Sargeant, "is the anonymous and musically illiterate expression of a whole people." America's folk music is jazz and the folk who originated it were Negroes. The contention is an old one, but hitherto nobody...
Assen Jordanoff brightened his book with hundreds of lucid and often humorous illustrative drawings and diagrams, spiced it with asides like: "The difference between a three-point landing and a one-point landing is that after the first you can fly the plane again. . . . Being playful close to the ground may mean an extra order of lilies for your neighborhood florist...
...regardless of his ability to juggle integrals or analyze unknowns, is worthy of a college degree unless he is able to produce a lucid, literate sentence. Nevertheless, the large numbers of theses and examinations made up of impassable jungles of words which come before the eyes of Harvard section men are witnesses to the fact that every year Harvard sends out many graduates who cannot write English...
Probably the most difficult and at the same time the most lucid of present-day poets is Laura Riding. Manhattan-born, Laura Riding at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War was settled in Mallorca, where, with Robert Graves, she published books of the Seizin Press. Forced to leave the island at a few hours' notice, she is now living in Brittany until Mallorca returns to its normal ways. An indefatigable worker, she has written nine books of poetry, six of criticism, a novel. This month her Collected Poems (Random House, $4) was published...
...WORLD'S BODY-John Crowe Ransom-Scribner ($2.75). Lucid essays on the obscurity of contemporary verse...