Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examples, let's take two records by one band and see which is what and why. About a year and a half ago, Gene Krupa's band made a record called "I Know That You Know" (Brunswick). It was the first record they made, and as a matter of fact, was their first band effort. This record was not only stiff, it suffered from rigor mortis, and here's why: everybody in the band, particularly drummerman Krupa, was playing ahead of the beat. As you play the notes of a melody, it sets up a four-four tempo. Krupa...
...armaments; and right now the Dies Committee is engaging in its campaign to slander and disorganize liberal movements in academic circles. There is more danger from such forces outside the academic world than from individual college officials to whom academic freedom is in Mr. Greene's words, "a matter of taste." And there is the further danger that we will voluntarily relinquish our freedom by adopting a supine indifference before those forces...
...interested in stimulating radio criticism. "Today we have as a matter of course criticism of music, literature, drama; why should we not have radio criticism?" he asks. "People should be asking how radio is serving them; what issues are being treated, and how; whether the ideas they are being fed are those of vested interests; and whether the quality of their entertainment cannot be vastly improved...
Professor Sorokin, who terms himself "the most radical professor at Harvard," described the "decline of civilization" to an audience of over 100. "No matter what the outcome of this war in Europe is," he continued, "even if all the Hitlers, Mussolinis, and Stalins are killed off, democracy will still be replaced by this powerful new force of totalitarianism...
...straining at the leash of any one part to break into prominence and destroy the equilibrium which exists. The Sargent paintings, on the other hand, although interesting and well done, prove only that Sargent knew how to handle a brush. His remarkable dexterity is admirably suited for his subject matter, which consists primarily of wooded scenes and luxuriant foliage, done in a swiftly executed, impressionistic manner. Sargent represented nature in a style that certainly indicates that he knew what he was seeing; Hopper, however, interprets nature in a way that leads one to believe that he can understand certain things...