Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation or so age, (we aren't quite suro how many generations), and some of the "boys" pose in an old-time daguerreotype was second to none we have ever seen. That tune, "The Flannel Petticoat Girl" emphasized the absurdity of the disguises somehow, with the most wonderfully rollicking rhythm, while those caricatures paraded back and forth, encore after encore...
...complicated maneuvres with no apparent end--marching and countermarching to the monotonous rhythm of beating drums" which the CRIMSON critic declares gave the crowds in the stands five minutes of "weariness if not of disgust", took exactly two minutes and a half and elicited tremendous applause. If the majority of the people in the stands were suffering, they used a queer method of expressing pain...
...distinct feature for the band to form an H at the Yale game, or at important games for that matter, but to spend five minutes in complicated evolutions with no apparent end-- marching and countermarching to the monotonous rhythm of beating drums, is sure to inspire a feeling of weariness if not of disgust. There were few people who had a chance to compare the simplicity of the Dartmouth band's marching formation with Harvard's complexity, who did not feel that the former was dignified and the latter ludicrous rather than impressive. After all a band is supposed...
Alice Meynell, poet and essayist, leader in the English Catholic literary movement. Her Poems and A Father of Women display intense, controlled emotion, often devotional in subject. The Rhythm of Life and The Second Person Singular are essays. Her husband, Wilfrid Meynell, and herself rescued the poet, Francis Thompson, from starvation...
...American musicians, but most have not, especially in countries like Germany, Austria, Italy. The jazz orchestra of natives is usually made up of good musicians, fellows competent to play in symphony orchestras. They play the notes of their jazz scores like good musicians-on the beat, strict time, precise rhythm. They have not the remotest idea of the perversions of the time beats that gives jazz its peculiar flavor-naturally, because they are good musicians trained to the sacred principle of accurate rhythm, the foundation of good symphony playing. They do, however, go in for American noise. The severely played...