Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio, instead of taking transcripts off the tape? Churchill's conclusion on May 8th was "Advance, Britannia! Long live the cause of freedom! God save the King." To print "Advance, Britain!" [TIME, May 14] is an insult to a great orator and an affront to every canon of rhythm...
...paintings by 48 artists proved that there is a worthwhile U.S. Negro art. The canvases were strongly flavored with expressionism and romanticism, but most had a primitive quality peculiarly their own. Painted in savage splashes of purple, red, black and brown, many contained writhing, weaving forms which suggested the rhythm of a voodoo ritual. Favorite subject matter: Negroes. Favorite theme: racial consciousness and antagonism. Some outstanding samples...
...flexors and extensors. Then Kiphuth got to work on Ford's form. After three years of bringing his stroke close to perfection, Ford has one final problem : the necessity of breathing. If he did not have to turn his head now & then, there would not be that slight, rhythm-breaking drop of the left shoulder...
...takes two to make a quarrel. (The Japanese film, incidentally, shows the strong ultraromantic influence of Nazi documentaries, which try by melodramatic low-angling and gauze-and-halo effects to turn human beings into creatures out of a legend.) The film is probably the clearest exposition of the rhythm and strategy of a battle that has yet been put on a screen for laymen. Its deeply moving close: an airman, dead in his shattered plane, is given sea burial...
...Unending Rhythm. The Missouri is the 26th volume in the Rivers of America series.* When the late Constance Lindsay Skinner started the series in 1937, it was planned to run to 24 volumes. Now the publishers intend to keep on as long as the rivers hold out. Already totaling 9,081 pages, the series is one of the most ambitious projects in contemporary U.S. publishing. It has been steadily profitable: The Missouri's 25 predecessors have sold a grand total of almost 200,000 copies...