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History was moving with 20th Century acceleration. Americans, who between boyhood and manhood had seen the collapse of four mighty states (the Russian and Austrian empires, Germany and France), heard the news almost with awe. For they grasped the fact that this was no merely political or military crisis; it was a crisis in Western civilization itself. It meant that the U.S. must take over from Britain the job of trying to solve the problem of contemporary history. The U.S. must, in Britain's place, consciously become what she had been, in reluctant fact, since the beginning of World...
...Massachusetts heroes to lovely wenches-the snag being that each man would secretly have preferred the other's wife. So the thwarted, disgruntled husbands join the U.S. Navy (it is the first decade of the 19th Century). They spend most of the book and their own manhood outsmarting piratical Beys and Deys in Tripoli, fleeing over the Nubian desert disguised as Moors, tossing scoundrels to the Deep...
...Hecht calls Solomon Rabinowitch "the greatest humorist the Jews ever produced." Rabinowitch was born in Pereyaslav, the Ukraine, in 1859. In his father's inn Sol grew from boyhood to manhood-and observed the customers. At 23, he began to write-about the customers-for Hamelitz, a Jewish periodical. He took the pen name Sholom Aleichem, the Jewish equivalent of "How do you do?", and turned out copy like a mimeograph...
...That is why students now seeking to prepare for a part in world affairs, greater in number than ever before, still look hopefully to the future. That is why they scornfully deny the charge of the Phi Beta Kappa speaker at Sanders Theatre yesterday that "in war our young manhood and womanhood was not afraid of dying, but strangely now it shrinks from living," yet echo enthusiastically his message: "There is yet time for valour...
...assaulting the bayous with his battered cornet, and that any musician not conforming to the recognized shape is most certainly "not in the idiom" and most likely a "show-off." What Panassie and his "purist" cronies fail to understand is that hot music was born, nursed and grown to manhood, struggling all the time against a frigid environment, and that its whole course of development has been and will be largely a result of this environment and the adjustments the individual musicians make for it. Jazz, like most other art forms, is a much more personal thing than many would...