Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interpreters could think of no provocation for Mussolini's sarcastic phrase "convivial vociferation," except the facts: 1) that Senator Pittman sometimes mixes good Bourbon with his statesmanship; 2) in December he abruptly announced...
...conflict between Japan's and China's armies has been the collision of a resistible force with a movable object. The battlefronts have been extremely elastic. Last week a Chinese military spokesman coined a new phrase for China's war plan: "rubber-band tactics"-let the Japanese stretch their various lines of advance until they are either snapped back or bound around. Last week the bands were being stretched and relaxed at the following points...
...character of the revival in recent decades of academic ritual, diploma fetichism, etc. Mr. Sargent swells his argument with some anthropological and Veblenist observations that need not be taken too seriously. The verse in this issue is good, particularly a lyric evidence of Marvin Barrett's remarkable feeling for phrase and imagery. In David Parry's translation--at least it says it is--from the Welsh, the orthography is antique, with u in place of v and vice versa. Elsewhere in the issue are a good many other curious spellings, but they come from much too careless proof reading...
...worked with young people during these later years will recognize that I am not describing a mythical individual. The student of today desires the rich personal satisfactions which works of art can give, but he desires something further. He feels, often unconsciously, the need for establishing, in Dewey's phrase, "the continuity of artistic experience with normal processes of living" in order that his experience of art may become a part of the equipment with which he is to establish a sound, happy and useful integration between himself and his world--that present world in which, quite naturally...
...country copies Louis to some extent. The best "solo" Harry James ever played, "Just a Mood" was lifted note for note from one of the old Louis records. Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, and the whole crowd not only copy his ideas, but try unsuccessfully to imitate his phrasing, the secret of Louis' greatness. Father Hines learned some of it from him and started the "trumpet" style piano from which present piano-men get their ideas. Louis can take three notes and make them mean more than fifty by anybody else. The reasons are his magnificently emotional tone and his ability...