Word: rhythmic
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...psychiatrists who attended the 82nd convention of the American Psychiatric Association in Manhattan last week knew that music which "soothes the savage beast," is also a sedative to the insane. Perhaps it is memory echoing up through a file of sea-rocked protoplasm. Certainly music, as well as rhythmic, beating surf, is calming...
...fails to make his best mark in the Intercollegiate competition. The same strain which is an asset to a runner tightens up the shot putter in such a fashion that he is fighting himself. I do not know if this is clear but the tenseness works against the rhythmic movements...
...point into the sky; steel-colored men, monotonously alike, pour life into them . . . Any Coney Island, with its merry-go-rounds, its sideshows, girls, sailors, street-cleaners, sandwich men, time clocks . . . No story, says Mr. Carpenter, just American life?Work and Play?"each with its own peculiar and distinctive rhythmic character"?American life for which Robert Edmund Jones designed the sets, for which Sammy Lee, famed director of Broadway revues, planned the choreography; in which jazz plays its restless, throbbing part, seems real, sincere because it does not pretend to be the basis...
...view of the general high standard of excellence it would be almost invidious to particularize. Nevertheless, in justice one must remark upon the humorous insight evident in Mr. Henderson's "Piano Specialty", the rhythmic swing of the Mandolin Club's performance of the Strauss waltz, the excellent numbers furnished by the Gold Coast Orchestra, including the inimitably accurate German band, the unusually fine violin solos by W. Lind, the highly diverting ventriloquist dialogue by M. Perry, the virtuosity of Mr. Benfield upon the marimba xylophone, and Mr. Moynahan's fantastic dance. Against these high lights furnished by individuals, the Banjo...
...singing? The sober citizen who pays entrance money may utter disconnected howls and yells during a thrilling end run, just as he would during a fast double play, but even the antics of the best cheerleader the club owners can find will scarcely remove his natural repugnance to bawling rhythmic nonsense. That kind of thing is all well enough for the Youngsters, but hard on the middle aged lungs and lanynx...