Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sentences not only words but sentences and always sentences have been Gertrude Stein's life long passion." The only teacher she acknowledges is her poodle, Basket. "The rhythm of his water drinking made her recognize the difference between sentences and paragraphs, that para- graphs are emotional and that sentences...
...spirituals to the frankly orgiastic frenzy of native Bahaman dances. Against the high yellow paling which divided them from the orchestra their shadows were enormous and fantastic. But in spite of claims that their dances were independent of Harlem influence, the Bahaman dancers displayed merely conventional abandon, little rhythm and no reason...
...sense of time also depends upon our sensory experience, added Professor Pieron while he was on the subject. Each individual has an organic rhythm which can be altered. Seconds become shorter for us when we have a fever, and conversely the days grow longer. An experiment on trained bees confirmed this heat-altered idea of time. The bees were trained to get their food at a particular time and place. The hotter the bees became the earlier they appeared for meals...
...Stomp," "Hot and Bothered." He has made his own arrangements of such straight tunes as "Limehouse Blues," "Three Little Words" and the Blackbirds score of 1928 ("I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby," "I Must Have That Man"), all of them unique for their variety of rhythm and the contrapuntal way in which the brasses play around the reeds...
...bullfight, held in honor of a gathering of European beauty queens. Afterwards he declared: "I was tremendously impressed . . . memories of spectacles in ancient Rome! I have never seen such color and tensity in a crowd. The action of the matadors was a most thrilling combination of beauty of physical rhythm with the danger of death. The placing of banderillas by special Portuguese horsemen was a beautiful exhibition...