Word: rhythmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rifle range at Camp Grant, Ill., two miles from the cantonment, a Negro regiment of the Illinois National Guard was engaged in routine practice with a one-pound Howitzer. Servicing of the gun was proceeding without accident, as on countless former occasions. Black bodies bent and sweated in accustomed rhythm. Periodically gunners tugged at their lanyards, set off the propelling charge of their shells with the monotonous routine of well ordered automita...
...people stand at the river's edge that hot afternoon-Walter M. Hoover formerly of Duluth, now of the Undine Barge Club of Philadelphia. But he, in the finals of the single sculls, did what he had come to do. His shiny yellow arms dipped with an incomparable rhythm, his green body slid along the water a length in front of Russell Codman Jr. of Boston with Paul Costello of Pennsylvania two feet behind Codman...
Miss Wills, playing in her first Eastern tournament of the year, showed all the poise and bright rhythm that have made her, at 19, the women's singles champion of the U. S. She defeated Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup for the Longwood title, 7-5, 6-2. Once Mrs. Jessup was within a point of taking a set. She whacked a speedy forehand into the left corner of the court-a beautiful passing shot. Two of the linesmen looked at each other with a mute, sleepy question. They called...
...theory, compared it favorably to Honegger's Pacific 231 (TIME, Oct. 27). Said Martinu: "As the composer, I beg to state that Half Time is not a sport composition . . . it registers no football game, no whistle of umpire or protests of the crowd. . . . The problem is one of rhythm and construction . . . a reaction against impressionism...
Because these painters have grown up under identical influences, and, indeed, influenced each other, the differences in their work are psychological rather than artistic. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud would have studied with cries of joy their respective pictures entitled The Bathers. Feitelson's nudes repose in a rhythm of dissolving, eager curves; his wife's are passive, virginal?cold images of desire pillared in water...