Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continues in this vein and ends with everyone happily set and everybody completely exposed "Guy Phillips, not seem to these shores since 1914, was perfectly adapted to the part of Captain, Bluntschli, or I should say, adapted himself perfectly to the part. His voice carried well, and caught the rhythm of Shaw's lines. He was the understanding gentleman and soldier. He knew the advantage of chocolate creams over cartridges. He had no more illusions than Shaw of the existence of courage, patroitism, faith, hope, and charity. (For the ladies, he looks, gorgeous in the uniform of a Captain...
...that she is a girl apart. She's your daughter. Whose else." Her curly head is full of girlish sense and nonsense. Her toes itch to beat out the latest dance rhythm. She's alive to every urge of wholesome happy youth...
...intimate terms with its audience. A French bridegroom must match a rare straw hat on his wedding day. Encumbered by a rural wedding party, driven by a fierce Lieutenant, he squirms from one ticklish situation to another, while the audience's amusement is heightened by music with strong rhythm, a buoyant chorus of youthful actors, ingenious flipping about of scenery...
...clarinet, which is a novel contrast. Following the overture are two Debussy Nocturnes, "Nuages" and "Fetes." The composer explains the former as "The unchangeable appearance of the sky, with the slow and solemn march of clouds dissolving in a gray agony tinted with white." The latter is described as "Rhythm dancing in the atmosphere with bursts of brusque light. There is also the episode of a procession (a dazzling and wholly idealistic vision) passing through the festival and blended with it; but the main idea and substance obstinately remain--always the festival and its blended music--luminous dust participating...
...Jazzists make a great point of their rhythmic innovations and the freedom of their rhythms. If they had any idea of what rhythm meant, they would know that in comparison with the rhythms of any of the great composers from the 16th Century onwards their own rhythms are merely as the sing-song of a nursery rhyme to the changing subtleties of a page of Shakespeare...