Word: rags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a U. S. psychologist the letters "ESP" have the effect of a red rag on a bull. "ESP" means extrasensory perception, i.e., telepathy and clairvoyance. Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University believes that his card-guessing experiments (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934) prove the existence of ESP. The various criticisms aimed at him boil down to the charge that he has not maintained the rigorous objectivity and experimental control demanded of serious research...
...Poet Coffin thinks that "the materials for ballads are still being made up every day out of the whole cloth of human nature." This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored fragments from human nature's rural rag...
...Manhattan's East River Gallery, the first one-man show of a 28-year-old New York artist named Loren Maclver. The best of these pictures brought yelps of pleasure from critics who have long complained that much U. S. painting shows the imaginative audacity of a dish rag. One of them. Procession of Small Beings, was close to a Klee fantasy except for its peculiarly vernal, blues and grays and its air of non-human humor. More evocative than Klee paintings, many Maclver paintings had to be looked at just as long before her nifty effects of specific...
...Negro named Strap Heel danced the buck-and-wing. At the time Harney's violently syncopated pianism, which according to contemporaries "could be heard for blocks around," was regarded as a passing fad. But it caught on so rapidly that by 1897 Harney was encouraged to publish his Rag-Time Instructor, first pedagogical treatise on the art of ragtime, now a collector's item...
Pianist Harney, who had toured the West and Midwest long before he started the craze in Manhattan, launched a nation-wide school of ragtime composers, active during the early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...