Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madame Guillet divides poetry's healing properties into rhythm, sonority and inspiration. Read or heard in the proper prescription and doses, it affects the "poetic fluid" in such a way that the brain recovers its equilibrium and nervous disturbances are cured...
After having been skilfully battered into the most odious of film categories, the movie biography has had its face lifted by Columbia in "The Jolson Story," and emerges almost unrecognizable and completely vindicated. Jolson himself recorded the songs, and he still packs more life, rhythm, and excitement, note for note, than any other singer around. Combined with Larry Parks' delivery, which old-time Broadwayites claim to be phenomenally like that of the man who was the biggest boxoffice draw of his times, Jolson's voice accounts for the excellence of about half the picture...
Unexpectedly the most workmanlike part of the magazine, the poonis are rich in restrained, suggestive imagery. Richard Wilbur's "Objects" is a related act of impressions, studded with vivid, sensuous imagery. In "Objects" and in his other two poems, Wilbur handles both rhyme and rhythm with subtlety and originality. "A Sermon," by John Ashbery, comments inclusively on a Bibical passage in terms of the frustration and spiritual blindness of modern society...
Pint-sized Sugar Chile, who sat at the piano with his back to the audience, swung his legs in a savage rhythm, played a rumbling bass. Sugar Chile still cannot reach an octave easily, but says "I can do it with a little jump...
...deeper sickness remained. The Crisis had upset the rhythm of production; the emptied industrial pipelines would be gurgling for many a month. Real recovery might not get started until midsummer, and that is when Britain must build up coal stocks for another winter. In consequence, the vital exports program may be affected right...