Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharply contrasting poems: "Disoriented", sapphics in which a strictly classic treatment of form encloses a romantic elaboration and decoration of feeling; and "the Passing of Shaughnessy" which fuses the fantasy and conceit of pre-classical phrasing in English poetry, a music that has the sureness of old rhythm and the freedom of new, and a nervous presentation of story conspicuously modern. Last of all, John Marshall in "Poem", curiously classic and free of tradition at once evokes briefly the feeling of dreams fascinating because too tenuous for sharp perception. And after the last, I find lost among the pages...
...lost his head over a pretty pair of legs and a smile. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that Columbia oarsmen have turned to the ballet during the tedious winter months. Tank rowing is said to be a terrible grind. And who is better qualified to develop rhythm and form than a Ziegfeld beauty...
...Plaza, is it? When you do it as they do, you do not go up, you go down, do you not feel that yourself? And the music this jazz! It is too noisy, too harsh. It might do for the grotesque, for clowns and acrobats. It has a rhythm, but it is not for dancing, do you see?" Madame talks as expressively with her arms and hands as with words: at this point she pressed both her hands to her face in an eloquent pantomime which showed how she felt the contrast between jazz and the music which she chooses...
...dividing line between poetry and prose. Poetry is lyrical expression. All else is prose. Ruskin thought he had stripped his definition of non-essentials when he wrote that poetry is "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." Later he discovered he had left out rhythm, and he amended his definition to include it. But Signor Croce stands upon his knife-edge distinction, and is not at all daunted by the necessity of calling de Maupassant a poet. The practical value of his theory is very doubtful. If one could overlook all but the simplest facts...
Cannot something be done before the Yale game to inspire the Harvard football team with more life, dash and rhythm? I am not indulging in any censorious Jeremiad, for it was evident to every spectator that the Harvard team could not have beaten the Princeton team, even if they had played far beyond themselves and there is no disgrace nor no cause for self-reproach whenever one loses to a superior opponent. I am simply greatly worried about the contrast in the general condition and attitude of the two sets of players, one of the most striking and even tragic...