Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Educated as a sculptor and painter Jensen reveals his artistic background in all his silver work. His designs are well-balanced and full of rhythm. The color and texture of his works are intended, in his own words, to suggest the "play of moonlight on water...
This protoplasmic streaming interests Dr. Seifriz immensely. The movements of Physarum show a definite pulse, not unlike that of a beating heart. With inadequate motion-picture equipment at Philadelphia, he was not able to see this living rhythm until he went to studv at the Pasteur Institute in France where films had been made and slowed down 100 times. The Physarum pulse was seen to have a period of about 45 seconds. Dr. Seifriz rejects the older theories attributing protoplasmic movement to surface tension, electric potentials, etc. "I ask the reader," he wrote recently in Science, "merely to admit that...
...create a regular rhythm of reading is the task of another machine, the metronoscope, which exposes one, two or three words at a time to the reader through a narrow window. It trains the reader to extend his span to two words, cuts the fixation time. Because the words move out of sight as fast as they are read, it eliminates regressions. The speed of the machine is gradually increased to raise the reader's speed...
...fortune at the age of four by appearing with Charles Spencer Chaplin in The Kid (later in Peck's Bad Boy, Oliver Twist, Little Robinson Crusoe) ; to Betty Grable, 20, famed rather for her long-standing (three year) engagement to Coogan than for her cinema roles (Old Man Rhythm, Follow the Fleet); during a recess in the production of College Swing (in which Miss Grable is the lead and Coogan acts a bit part); in Los Angeles...
...like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth, the singer swaying slightly to the rhythm...