Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crosby's bunch was covered here briefly last week. Most important thing to understand about the band is that their rhythm is completely different from that played by most bands of today. It is two beats to a phrase, instead of four. As a result, you get a style of jazz that is more staccatto, with shorter melodic phrases, and all sorts of trick rhythmic effects achieved thru breaking up the beat. In other words, this is a white man's way of playing jazz, as opposed to the colored man's more lagging, slurring attack of long phrase...
...impartial observer must first look behind the catchwords of war propagandists. In the World War these men, reaching the peak of their inventiveness, hit upon the phrase, "war to end war." Judging by the quality of the slogans, the present conflict cannot yet equal the holiness of the last one. But still, the parallel between now and the days of 1914-1917 is close. Then too, leaders of church and university such as President Eliot of Harvard and Bishop Manning, boldly backed Britain and France. America thought after the war that this would never happen again, but the familiar utterances...
...take charge of the Russian revolution. There in the cold, draughty Tsar's Room of the depot, he stood looking uncomfortable while newly elevated bigwigs welcomed him with speeches and with a bouquet that he handled as gingerly as if it had been a bomb. The phrase "to the Finland Station" has a symbolic meaning, implies something like a rendezvous with destiny...
...book is in fact crowded with theories which are carefully to be distinguished from the stuff of doctoral theses. Mr. Van Doren's comment on Falstaff's style is a case in point: "(Falstaff) being old and fat, he is short of breath and so must be brief of phrase . . . He has made the most of this limitation. Artist that he is, he has accepted its challenge and employed it in effects that express his genius with a notable and economical directness. His speech then is not merely brief; it is repetitive, it rolls back on itself, it picks...
Last week, after the sinking of the 5,051-ton British freighter Clement in the South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge growlers on the foggy way to Greenland, big men on the cold Cape haul-all were nervous on the watch and reminiscent at mess because of a capricious, romantic, dangerous ghost that was out kissing British ships again: the German raider...