Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the stately rhythm of two pachyderms learning to waltz the U. S. State Department and the Council of the League of Nations edged around and around the Sino-Japanese crisis (see p. 20), vastly pleased to discover last week that they can waltz together without treading on each other's big white diplomatic toes...
...first mentioned number, the finale to the first part of the program, the climax of the evening is reached, especially in the parts where Annanias Berry (the most elongated and the most able of the Berry brothers) races in to do his almost incredible dances to a tempo and rhythm that conforms to the best of Negro traditions. In short, the black people do up the "Rhapsody in Blue" brown...
...paintings of Jacques Louis David carry the insignia of that austere and serious age which, now ignorantly identified with the flippancies of a decadent court, preceded and precipitated the French Revolution. Large somber canvases, they exclude flippancy and tell, with a dignified and almost Alexandrine rhythm, the most ennobling dramas of classical history-The Rape of the Sabines, Leonidas at Thermopylae, The Oath of the Horatii, Brutus, The Grief of Andromache and, most somber and perhaps imposing of all, the Death of Socrates-called, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ''the greatest effort of art since the Sistine Chapel...
...haven't got rhythm, If you haven't got rhythm, If you haven't got rhythm, Then you haven't got rhythm...
...colony, then built a house at Santa Fe, N. M. Between literary jobs she goes on what she calls "jam-borees," makes enormous quantities of jam, jellies, pickles for herself & friends. Her flower-garden is famed. Other books: Isidro, A Woman of Genius, No. 26 Jayne Street, The American Rhythm...