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...numbers and geometrical figures which pleases his fancy, then plots this combination on graph paper to make a blueprint that looks promising. The blueprint, transcribed into musical notation, is the piece of music the "engineer" set out to construct. Shaw promised that the Schillinger system could provide 10,000 rhythmic combinations from the 19 basic rhythms used by Mozart and Beethoven...
...capital's hush every sound was audible-the twitter of birds in new-leafed shade trees; the soft, rhythmic scuffing of massed, marching men in the street; the clattering exhaust of armored scout cars moving past, their machine guns cocked skyward. And the beat of muffled drums. As Franklin Roosevelt's flag-draped coffin passed slowly by on its black caisson, the hoofbeats of the white horses, the grind of iron-rimmed wheels on pavement overrode all other sounds...
...Schoolteacher Inez Thrift's experience in an aircraft factory: "After a few days I occasionally felt a oneness with my machine. . . . And the picking up and quarter-turning of each part fell into a rhythmic pattern. . . . "The bee's kiss now,' as I bore down firmly on the reamer. 'The moth's kiss now,' as I lightly burred the edges...
Katherine Dunham, rhythmic Negro choreographer (Tropical Revue), stepped high into Manhattan's swank East Seventies, bought a $200,000, 30-room mansion which she will turn into a dancing school. Neighbors in the same block: the Frick museum and a Vanderbilt town house...
Every now & then, since Marcel Proust's death in 1922, a young American writes urbanely and philosophically about his or her past in long, rhythmic, qualified sentences and is forthwith called "the American Proust." Miss Stafford is the latest to be thus crowned. But while Proust was from birth an accepted member of the decadent Parisian society about which he wrote in Remembrance of Things Past, Miss Stafford's proxy, Sonia Marburg, is rather painfully not a socialite. Sonia is the dreaming, sensitive daughter of a German shoemaker and a Russian chamber maid-as unlikely a person...