Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stark Young?"Rhythm and color in little frames and patterns from the classical tradition. ... A kind of sporting mental delight in hearing Mme. Simone take the soaring speeches provided for her, to see with what attack she dispatches them one after another, like walking a tight rope through a heavenly grammar...
History is, properly speaking, a chronicle of the deeds of men. The 84 chapters of the books read with the perfect rhythm of a connected story; yet all of them have a different tale to tell. J. L. Garvin, Britain's great Liberal journalist, contributes four chapters on world history since 1890, with emphasis,on the 20th Century. Major General Sir Frederick Maurice polishes off the War, tells how it was "fought and won." General Ludendorff informs the reader that Germany never was defeated; which contention, even if it be preposterous, at least gives a point of view that...
Inscrutable, Helen forged through three preliminary matches in one hour, eight minutes of playing time. Still inscrutable, she tussled through the semi-final against strenuous Mary K. Browne, ageless Californian, losing her one set of the tournament when a misunderstanding jogged her service rhythm on Miss Browne's set-point...
...rather unique ability named 'Chas. Washington.' As is a very common custom in certain parts of the South, he was called 'Chaz.' 'Chaz' could not read music but he had a gift of 'faking' and a marvelous sense of syncopated rhythm. It was a practice to repeat the trio or chorus of popular numbers, and because of the catchiness of 'Chas.'s' drumming he was called on to do his best on the repeats. At the end of the first chorus the leader would say: 'Now Chaz...
...final poem "Love and the Garlands" he uses, with workmanship nearly perfect, the trochaic pentameter of Browning's "One Word More" in a sestina. Indeed his feeling for rhythm is so keen and so subtile that some of his verses will not read themselves to an ear less delicately trained than his own; and his work is in a way analogous to the music of certain modern composers. Combined with his generous freedom in trisyllabic feet is the liberty that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those...