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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What about "swing"? This is a question which musicians are repeatedly asked to comment upon. The answer--what the fate of "swing" itself will be and whether or not it will become the folk music of America--will be decided by time alone, but it is certain that the impression which the various forms of jazz have made on modern art-music will perpetuate its distinctive rhythmic and melodic types as important parts of the serious musical idiom of our time...

Author: By L. C. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...matter, this suggestion carried with it the inescapable implicit assumption that many of the increased number of associate professors could never be advanced--that they would have to be appointed without predictable vacancies ahead of them. In view of this, President Conant could easily have appointed the men in question to permanent positions, after having made a few simple salary adjustments. The Committee, in recommending no hasty action, may well have intended this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD ROUND | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...question remains whether there is any sincere intention to enforce rules or whether violations of these rules will be winked at as they have in the past. Only time can tell," Tunis concludes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunis Optimistic Over New Group For Athletic Rules | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

Ickes: "... I will answer any frank and honest question, but not a loaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chance to Heckle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Night of the Poor is the answer to that question. Like The Asiatics its only plot is a record of travel, but this time the traveler is a 17-year-old boy bumming his way south from Wisconsin to his home in Texas. Tom starts out with his friend Pete, a mindless blond giant with curly hair on his chest who almost immediately mag netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plausible Echoes | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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