Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. With the appearance of each volume of The Tale of Genji critics burst into frenzies of enthusiastic comparison: "Fielding's Tom Jones with music by Debussy" . . . "as if Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece...
...great heights is pleasant-provided the smash-up at earth is thorough. Professor Heim of Zurich, who stated so last week, once fell off a precipice of Mount Saentis. He lit on his head and distinctly heard the thud. Stout, he recovered; introspective, he recalled his falling sensations. Delicious music soughed by his ears. He was very calm. Only after an hour from his rocky landing did he feel the pain of his broken bones...
...Music-loving explorers may play or learn to play: harmonicas (Hohner), one player piano (Wurlitzer), one accordion (Hohner), one xylophone (Deagan), guitars (The Harmony Co. of Chicago), victrolas (Victor Talking Machine...
...that W. C. Fields is a good box-office name, that Joe Frisco, Ray Dooley, Gordon Dooley, Dorothy Knapp, in one theatre, insure against empty seats. The Carroll formula is simple, the execution elaborate: sign stars, hire lovely female bodies to undulate across stage, buy a few "hot" sketches. Music is nonessential (there is but one worthy song, "Vaniteaser," in the show...
...design. In this year also he frequented dance halls and composed his pornographic peroration upon the modern dance: "Crowded together . . . surging up and down . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace . . . with the cheek of the man against the cheek of the girl . . . sensuous strains of oriental music . . their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were actually indecent . . . cigaret smoke . . . fumes of whisky . . . tipsy girls . . . young women who were raving drunk . . . surging . . . women of the town ... 'I shall never dance again...