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...bull's neck by the banderilleros or, with musical accompaniment, by the matador himself. Then the matador takes the bull alone, plays him with the muleta (red cloth), kills him with a sword. If the crowd approves a matador and his suertes (manoeuvres), there are rhythmic chants of "Olé! Olé!" A bad performance brings a shower of cushions and curses. Says Hemingway: "Now the essence of the greatest emotional appeal of bullfighting is the feeling of immortality that the bullfighter feels in the middle of a great faena and that he gives to the spectators. He is performing a work...
...floored warehouse is neatly piled with bunches of tobacco leaves. Buyers inspect them, fingering them, and measuring them with their eyes. The auctioneer, at one end of the room, starts to chant. Coat off, hat on the back of his head, hands on his hips, he sways to the rhythmic rise and fall of his cry. "Hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben," is the way it sounds if you have never heard it, "Hobben-dobben, ay-ay-ay-ay -ay -ni -ni -ni -ni-ni-ten-ten-ten-ten-SOLD." By crooks of fingers, nods of heads, distention of nostrils...
...captious folk this outlay of Gershwin revealed a weakness of structure, a lack of variety. But most of the Stadiumgoers were well content to take Gershwin's agile, rhythmic music on its own terms. They had heard before The Rhapsody in Blue, the sly American in Paris, the workman-like Concerto in F. From familiar Gershwin shows came the overture to "Of Thee I Sing," "Wintergreen for President," and a medley of "Fascinating Rhythm." "Liza," "The Man I Love," "I Got Rhythm." New to the Stadium were the other two numbers, conducted by Albert Coates: the highbrow Second Rhapsody...
...where a treadmill and enormous water wheel figured in the setting; then into Harlem for a lively cabaret scene. From the jungle opening, where only percussion instruments accompanied the unisonal chants, to the end, where spirituals and jazz were mingled, the tom-tom beat its insistent note. Spirited and rhythmic was the performance of the 500 Negro choristers and Negro moppets. High spots: the end of the plantation scene, with massed slaves singing the chant of their new freedom while a band plays "John Brown's Body"; the short, jazzy cabaret scene; the death of the Voodoo Man, with...
...philosophical romance: perhaps its most famed flowering is the late Joseph Henry Shorthouse's John Inglesant. Author Morgan's novel, acclaimed with broad "Ahs!" in England, the June choice of the U. S. Book-of-the-Month Club, twigs from the same literary branch. In a rhythmic, hypnotic style it shows philosophic conceptions rising in the lives of its main characters, those characters' lives falling back on philosophical conceptions...