Word: razz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Standards. Toledo-born Art Tatum played his first professional engagement at 16 as a dance-band pianist. Two years later he left the band to go on his own as a soloist. "The other boys used to razz me," he says. "They said I had no left hand, so I made up my mind to show 'em." Tatum is still sensitive about criticism of his bass, but can claim, with the enthusiastic approval of his fans, that he does more with his left hand than most pianists do with both...
...Johnny Somers, the sole exception to the pattern. Johnny, the hero, is 21, shy, inexperienced, friendly, the sort of person to whom good-natured drunks confide their life histories, because he is too reticent to relate his own, too sympathetic to shut them up, and too polite to razz them. Like Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel! and like a thousand other intellectuals in American fiction, he thinks in a scrambled poetic prose-The memory of her face had the time of sunlight upon...
...Razz-Ma-Tazz. The greatest equalizer, Billy soon found, was money. In school he did well enough, but he never showed real brilliance until just before grammar-school graduation. For the occasion, Billy desperately wanted a new suit. Where could he get the $5? While he was wondering, the school offered a $5 prize for the best English composition. Billy won it with a description of the emotions of a boy running. "I realized then," says Billy, "that the only guy this razzmatazz world would pay was a specialist...
...Jeep (TIME, April 3) ended abruptly when a crowd of G.l.s walked out on it. In Alaska, where Olivia De Havilland is normally very popular with G.l.s, they fiercely hooted her flag-waving tantrums at the end of Government Girl. Everywhere, G.l.s scan war films for technical errors to razz; and everywhere they reserve their most scathing cracks for pseudo-heroics...
England's 18th Century master of graphic razz and uproar, Caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson, last week enlivened the Boston art scene: some 100 selected Rowlandsons hung on the walls of the Boston Public Library. They came from the Library's Albert H. Wiggin* Collection of Prints, Drawings, and Books-one of the world's finest...