Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impregnated only during eight days of her cycle, that during the remaining 19 to 24 days she is not apt to conceive. This system of intermittent continence fits perfectly with the word of God, say Catholic authorities. Sixty thousand copies of a single exposition of the Ogino-Knaus rhythm theory and rules have been sold. The originators say that their system is more than 90% positive if their rules are scrupulously followed. Mrs. Sanger says that Ogino-Knaus technique is less than 40% certain...
Shostakovich's choral skill exhibited itself when the peasants rolled the cook in the barrel. The peasants shouted their delight but the music had reason and a sure, compelling rhythm. When the father-in-law caught Katerina wrestling, the horns were again cruelly loud and foreboding. As she climbed the stairs and settled herself in bed, Narrator Hale described her as seeing "visions of the mating beasts and birds. . . . Even the wind bending the tree to its will is a lover, alive, insistent...
...like Jack Oakie's cockiness and Lanny Ross' voice you will enjoy "College Rhythm" in spite of the plot. As a matter of fact there is no plot according to all dicta of drama, as far as the reviewer could determine. The action hovers around unrevealed and unrequited love, a theme which is as old as the world itself...
Lyda Roberti, with her blonde curls, her smile, her accent and her compelling rhythm outstrips the rest of the female participants in the matter of sex interest, while Helen Mack contributes a winsome bit which will not go unappreciated. All in all "College Rhythm" combines nonsense with some good musical numbers and one of the best choruses in the movies to produce a fairly amusing incident for a snowy afternoon. It can be recommended as a respite from such fly-specks on a Senior's schedule as French 7 or History...
...feelings: "The dance is the sport of God, spontaneous, harmonious, continuous. By renunciation, discipline, and unfoldment we become aware of the King dom within; these are the very essence of the divine dance. We renounce the world, for while we dance we are outside of time, we surrender to rhythm, we create forms of beauty as we move...