Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With rhythm suited to the thought and spots of soft lyric and charm this poem squeezes through the fence, however, not without groans and short monosyllabic cries, most masculine in volume and tone but emitted from poet-made woman's lips...
...CRIMSON reporter that it had been his New Year's resolution to write two symphonies. Asked about what tendencies he had observed in modern American music, he said that so much was being composed that it was hard to tell, but that he had noticed a bent toward smoother rhythm and harmony "Since I wrote the rhapsody several pieces have been written in the American idiom, call it jazz, blues or what you will I believe that in a few years classics will appear that could not have been composed anywhere except in the United States...
...unheard ode in a minor key that sings their passing acquires the rhythm of a funeral march as one realizes that these are the last brave survivors of a dying race. Next year there will be none. The midyear graduate of the future is an impossibility--for degrees are to be granted only in June. From now on the digits will bear no fractional appendages. The present species is the last of a long line. And his heritage is silence...
...composer famed throughout the U. S. for his sound depiction of a giant cross-country engine, Pacific 231, announced last week in Paris that his next symphony will be called Rugby. Into music he will put the scrimmaging of a football match, trying "to express the pulsating action, reaction, rhythm and color that animates the great contest of muscles, brawn and strategic skill...
...India, and other less famed but meritorious novels, E. M. Forster gave a series of lectures at Cambridge. In these lectures, now published, he traces, weighs, values, explains in original fashion, the elements of the novel. These elements: "The Story," "The People," "The Plot," "Fantasy," "Prophecy," "Pattern and Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels as they watch magicians, longing for mystification, it will be merely a tedious expose...