Word: punditing
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...Other masters, like Bosch and El Greco and Chardin, share an enthusiastic contemporary reception," wrote Pundit Alfred M. Frankfurter for the catalogue, "but none of them comes so close to the dernière heure of modern taste. . . ." Pleased visitors were inclined to agree that the dernière heure would be a happier one if such sparkling craft and wit as Piero's were more commonly wedded to unfettered fantasy...
Participating players, almost a Who's Who of topflight U. S. jammers, included Clarinetists Joe Marsala, Milton Mesirow, Peewee Russell; Saxophonists Bud Freeman, Sid Bechet; Cornetists Bobby Hackett, Hotlips Paige; Pianist Jess Stacey; Trombonist Tommy Dorsey; Drummers Dave Tough and Zutty Singleton. Present also were No. 1 Swing Pundit Hugues Panassié, grey-haired Blues-writer William Christopher Handy (St.Louis Blues, Memphis Blues). This prime assortment of talent bumped slightly at the takeoff, but in the final ensemble lived up to its big names...
...ruckus even drew some notice from the pontifical pen of New York Times Music Critic Olin Downes. Said Pundit Downes: "A four-voiced fugue, in the best Benny Goodman style, would be something, though just what defies the imagination...
Last week Swing Fan Panassié arrived in Manhattan on his first visit to the U.S. After skimming the cream of Manhattan's swing spots, Pundit Panassie concluded that the U.S.,Manhattan, and Manhattan's Harlem were "marvelous," but that "jeeterbogs" were an unmitigated nuisance. He further concluded that a concert of jazz music was a "seely idea," that the rising generation of "cats" are mere kittens compared with the classic Louis Armstrong, "Bix" Beiderbecke and "Fots Wallair." His present favorites: Count Basic at the Famous Door, Sidney Bechet and Zutie Singleton, whose jamming is a nightly feature...
...first half of the 19th Century, when such men as Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Preacher Theodore Parker and Pundit Bronson Alcott were generating a whole kaleidoscope of intellectual sparks, Boston was in truth the cultural powerhouse of the U.S. Since then Boston's cultural graph has shown, a decline. Her writers and painters, once the most pioneering, are now for the most part complacent. But to the Back Bay Brahmins Boston's past glories are still present, her old-fashioned way of life still sacredly up-to-date...